Tony Bellew shockingly reveals he wrote A WILL before his heavyweight boxing clash against David Haye at the O2 Arena
In the lead up to the clash, Haye said that he would 'hospitalise' Bellew - but it was the Liverpool man who won the fight
TONY BELLEW has revealed he made A WILL before he stepped into the ring for his heavyweight showdown with David Haye.
In the lead up to the domestic clash, Haye had spoke of how he would "hospitalise" his Liverpool opponent - something he is expected to be punished for by the British Boxing Board of Control.
It didn't phase Bellew in the ring however, as he triumphed with an 11th round stoppage of the Hayemaker.
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This was despite Haye being the big favourite with the bookies and most boxers and pundits in the professional game.
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Before the fight, WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew has said how he was so fearful of the fight going the wrong way that he actually wrote a will.
He told : “There’s people in situations and it’s very, very frightening. The situations some fighters have been in recently. I’ll be honest, it scares me.
“People don’t know this but I wrote a will before that fight. It’s the only time I’ve ever done it in my whole career.
"I wrote a will two weeks before leaving everything to my missus in case anything happened to me because I knew he was capable of really, really hurting me.
“Don’t get me wrong, I knew I’m capable of hurting him too. That’s the extreme measure I went to. To hear this guy saying the things he was saying, I just found it absolutely disgusting."
Haye, 36, ruptured his Achilles tendon in the sixth round and was subsequently pulled out of the fight by his trainer Shane McGuigan. He has said he is very much interested in a rematch with Bellew.
Boxing has been rocked in the last few years following the near-death experience suffered by Nick Blackwell, who slipped into a coma after he suffered bleeding on the brain against Chris Eubank JR.
And Scottish boxer Mike Towell tragically died after being knocked down in his fight against Dale Evans in September last year.
It was later revealed "Iron Mike" had complained of "crippling headaches" in the weeks leading up to the bout.