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Heavyweight Jeamie Tshikeva angrily flipped a table and left the stage after a heated exchange with fellow Briton David Adeleye in a chaotic news conference.<\/b><\/p>\n
The pair will fight for the vacant British title at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Adeleye and Tshikeva – known as TKV – were kept apart during a row in a media interview earlier in fight week, but the argument escalated at Thursday’s event.<\/p>\n
“This persona he’s putting on, this bad-boy persona… we’re both educated men,” TKV, 31, said.<\/p>\n
“We’re both raised by great parents. Are you an academic gangster? I don’t know where this gangster persona comes from, brother.”<\/p>\n
Adeleye, 28, took offence to suggestions he was scared, and targeted a member of his opponent’s team by saying they looked like comedian Harry Hill.<\/p>\n
“There’s only one way to settle this – fight,” promoter Frank Warren said in reference to Hill’s catchphrase.<\/p>\n
The quip did little to ease the tension as Adeleye and TKV both became visibly irate.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to hurt you, Jeamie, trust me,” Adeleye said before banging his fist on the table.<\/p>\n
TKV stood up and overturned the table, before security held both men back and Warren told them to “calm down”. <\/p>\n
The event continued without the usual face-off after TKV departed. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n