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The exact same joke did the rounds during the Tony Bellew/David Haye love-in

Published 03:48 5 Mar 2017 GMT

Darragh Murphy
The exact same joke did the rounds during the Tony Bellew/David Haye love-in

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On Monday, David Haye was facing a punishment for threatening to hospitalise Tony Bellew.

On Saturday, he came within a whisker of getting the shout to be Bellew's best man for his upcoming wedding ceremony. A war of words more vitriolic than that between Bellew and Haye hadn't been seen for quite some time in the fight game but all the trash talk ended the instant the final bell rang in London's O2 Arena. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/838180096682962944 As a towel came sailing to the canvas from Haye's corner, Bellew knew that victory was his. An unfortunate injury to Haye in the sixth round reduced him to a one-legged fighter for the remainder and although he admirably gutted it out until the 11th, it was always a big ask. Immediately following the bout, Bellew rushed to embrace his foe and the hug was rightly praised online as every fight fan likes to see beef squashed and differences settled for good, left in the ring forever more. But several viewers felt that the love-in between Bellew and Haye, who supposedly despised each other as recently as yesterday, went on for a bit too long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWkpM-4SGs The men hugged and showered one another with praise throughout a lengthy interview with Sky Sports. And it prompted the exact same joke on Twitter during the lovefest. https://twitter.com/James_Buckley/status/838171888073375744 https://twitter.com/Badams1983/status/838172423044362246 https://twitter.com/BBCAndyBurke/status/838172364219289600 https://twitter.com/nffcwazza/status/838176006141788160 https://twitter.com/ColinUdoh/status/838173778551132161 https://twitter.com/W2_Ell/status/838173509973061632 https://twitter.com/anotherjkelly/status/838173270767779841 https://twitter.com/TomRufc99/status/838172832647561217 https://twitter.com/laurenanya/status/838172385916436480 https://twitter.com/jamiebennett92/status/838172087621668864 https://twitter.com/worldcuplegends/status/838171873158508544

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The exact same joke did the rounds during the Tony Bellew/David Haye love-in