British boxing champion Ben Whittaker was reportedly dragged away by airport security in Saudi Arabia after smashing a fan’s phone.
Hours after bizarrely drawing his bout against Liam Cameron, The Sun claim that Whittaker fumed at a supporter saying “don’t take no photos of me” before destroying his device.
A source for the report further elaborated: “I spotted Ben Whittaker coming through security and then a fan who had a boxing T-shirt on went up with his phone and went to take a photo.
“Ben said ‘don’t take no photos of me’ and snatched the phone out of his hand and smashed it straight on the floor.
“Ben stepped towards him, looked like he was gonna punch him and some of Ben’s team jumped in between them and it got really heated – they were shouting at each other.”
Whittaker has already broken his silence on the incident and said: “This was a really unfortunate event and I’m grateful to the gentleman that he sat down to talk about it straight afterwards and accepted my apology.
“Unfortunately I can’t comment further on the alleged video recording as I have not seen it. In any case, we are in touch about replacing his phone and coming along to a future event as our guest.”
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