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They may be big, but there's nothing clever about the Punchin' in Munchen . . .

'The Marquis of Queensberry roolz' might just as well have been sprayed as graffiti in a Munich underpass.

Chisora and Haye square up before the bedlam begins . . .
Chisora and Haye square up before the bedlam begins . . .

Indeed, events – something to do with the pugilistic pursuit of glory, according to the prebout publicity – seemed so removed from the codification of boxing as a noble art that the good marquis was probably spinning faster in his grave than an amphetamine-fuelled yarn-maker.