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Crowd trouble marred the boxing in east London last night after a mass brawl broke out when Asinia Byfield defeated fan favourite Sam McNess.
The unsavoury scenes at the Copper Box Arena reportedly started as Byfield celebrated his impressive victory in the ring.
A significant portion of the crowd is believed have been made up of West Ham supporters, from whom McNess has a huge backing.
Video footage emerged on social media showing a number of people in the crowd throwing punches as stewards tried to gain control of the situation.
People in the crowd took to Twitter to describe the “carnage”.
Absolute carnage at the Copper Box Arena after Sam McNess gets stopped by Asinia Byfield! pic.twitter.com/3PY4Xfd5v1
— Strictly Boxing Fans (@BoxingBritain1) July 8, 2017
Carnage. #copperbox pic.twitter.com/DZ120XY88i
— Rob Swan (@RobSwan87) July 8, 2017
Others on Twitter condemned the behaviour, as there were fears that children and woman were caught up, and reports of bottles being thrown and chairs being used as weapons.
Disgusting behaviour from small section of crowd at Copperbox, not what it’s about. Gives boxing a bad name. Keep the fighting in the ring.
— Stuart Wolf (@According2Wolfy) July 8, 2017
Big trouble in the crowd after the Byfield/McNess fight.
Why do people who go to watch Boxing live suddenly think they can fight?
— James Milner (@jimmymilner78) July 8, 2017
Byfield made a quick exit from the ring as the trouble continued and the ring announcer at the Stratford venue pleaded with the fans to calm down.
The scenes died down about 20 minutes later and the night’s boxing resumed.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed officers were called to a disturbance at about 10am.
He added: “Officers dealt with the situation. There were no serious injuries and no arrests were made.”
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