Boxer pepper sprays opponent at weigh-in – but says ‘I am a professional’

Charleston White accused his rival Suede of trying to drag him into a "bar fight" after pushing him at their weigh-in, despite the YouTuber then retaliating with pepper spray.

The two men are set to fight at an Influencer Championship Boxing (ICB) event on Saturday in Arizona for the ICB North American lightweight championship.

White, 53, was taken aback when Suede charged towards him and shoved him at their weigh-in in the build-up to the fight, only for him to pull some pepper spray from his robe and spray it into his opponents eyes.

Speaking after the incident, White suggested Suede was lucky it was only pepper spray, as he fumed: "I hit that mother f*****g switch when he pushed me. I told you to quit playing with me. If you want to box, let's box. I don't do these other s**t."

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"Leave me alone because I could've pulled this out," he added, pulling out a taser from under his robes. "I could've tased you… I came for the weigh-in, I didn't come to be pushed around… Get your s**t together, boy. We going to box, or we going to fight? Because if we are going to fight, I've got a bunch of s**t."

White has built up quite the following on social media and shared a clip of himself training ahead of his match-up with comedian turned crossover boxer Suede 'The Plug God'. He then fired a message to his rival by insisting he was a "professional" and will only fight under strict boxing regulations.

"There's a difference between fighting and boxing," he ranted. "I'm a motherf***ing boxer, I don't do no motherf***ing bar fight. I'm an amateur, professional boxer with the USA boxing association. Don't put your hands anywhere on me outside no boxing ring.

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"I'm a sanctioned fighter, you're trying to fight unsanctioned. There weren't no referee, no rules. Keep your god damn hands off me.

"So now you keep your hands off me until we get in the ring. I fight with boxing gloves. If you hit me you hit me with a glove but you don't put your motherf***ing hands on me, I'm a grown man.

"I'm coming in visually impaired, he's coming in visually impaired. Put your money on me. Get your god damn ticket. The fight is even now. The playing field has been levelled. He ain't getting no points. This fight is fair now."

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