David Haye follows Foreman into the grill business

Sports News: With retirement just around the corner, David Haye is dipping an injured toe into the lucrative world of burning meat today with the launch of his ‘David Haye Grill’.

“Yes, George Foreman has also a got a grill, but I can assure you that my grill is better. Why? Well for starters, it’s more new.

So what is it about defeated boxing champions that makes them think about marinated lamp chops? Sports psychotherapist Anna Macnamara thinks she has the answer.

“After any big defeat, a boxing champion will take a long hard look in the mirror. What will he see there? Usually his own face, split, red and swollen, as if it has been pressed against hot grill. This is the eureka moment. They think ‘mnnn… tasty’.”

Of course not every boxer has managed to match success in the ring with success in the kitchen. Mike Tyson’s range of indestructible spatulas never got off the ground, and who remembers the Chris Eubanks Basting Mop?

But Haye is in no doubt that the David Haye Grill will be a ‘knock-out’ in the kitchen.

“When the manufacturers approached me and asked if I wanted to get involved with this product I didn’t have to think twice – and I don’t like to think twice. It hurts.”

“The exciting thing about the my grill is that you can personalise it. You can call it ‘Mr. Grill’ for instance, or ‘Bare Grills’ or ‘Prince Grilliam’ and you can write that name on the free sticker you get on the box once you’ve crossed out the price. Plus you can grill ice cream on it.”