The World Boxing Council has fined Dereck Chisora $50 000 for slapping Vitali Klitschko at the weigh-in before their fight last weekend.
And David Haye, who was involved in the disgraceful brawl with Chisora after the fight, has posted a Twitter picture of himself in a first-class aeroplane seat, apparently on his way to Las Vegas.
These claims have been made in a continuing torrent of news reports since the fight in Munich last Saturday night.
Sapa-AP reported on Tuesday that the WBC had fined Chisora "a reported $50 000" – about R386 000 – for slapping the champion when they stood face to face at the pre-fight weigh-in last Friday.
The Associated Press also reported that Haye had tweeted: "Jetting off to warmer climates. It's PARTY TIME!"
German police officers still want to interview Haye, a former WBA heavyweight champion, about his role in the fracas at a media conference after Klitschko had beaten Chisora on points.
Klitschko, according to reports, feels Chisora needs more punishment; something that "really has to hurt". That is why he has offered the Briton a rematch.
'EVERYTHING SEEMS LIKE A NIGHTMARE'
The 40-year-old Ukrainian has said "this lout" should not be allowed "to drag the sport of boxing into such disrepute."
Klitschko suffered a partially torn ligament in his left shoulder during the fight, but said he would "never" have given up against Chisora.
"I'd rather have died than to give him anything," he said.
Klitschko has tried to explain his feelings as Chisora nearly wrecked the image of the sport that the Zimbabwe-born Briton professes to love.
"Before the fight I still thought that how he was presenting himself, how he behaved, was a show.
"But then I realised he wasn't acting. He must be crazy. When I think about all he's done ... then he threatens to shoot someone, to kill … How can you be like that as a person?
"Everything I had to do with him seems like a nightmare," Sapa-AP reported Klitschko as saying.
"For now I am concentrating on (his brother) Wladimir's title defence and getting back to full health as quickly as possible," he said.
Wladimir was declared the WBA's "super champion" after beating Haye in Hamburg last July.
He is scheduled to defend the belt, and the IBF, WBO and IBO titles, against Jean-Marc Mormeck of France in Düsseldorf on March 3.
Responding to reports that he may retire soon, Vitali said he had no immediate such plans and still had dreams to realise.
"I'm superstitious and believe that when you speak of dreams before they're realised, they won't come true," he said.
However, it is no secret he has political aspirations in Ukraine, where parliamentary elections will be held in October.
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