This is the moment the wife of defeated boxer Tony Bellew lashed out at arena staff with a homophobic tirade calling one worker a “f–king queer” and a “dirty f–king f-g.”
Bellew, 35, suffered an eighth-round knockout defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in their cruiserweight bout Saturday and said his boxing career was “over.”
Footage from inside the Manchester𒊎 Arena in Manchester, England, after the match shows his wife, Rachael Roberts, shouting and swearing at ba🎉r staff in an elevator.
It is thought a worker — not realizing who she was — asked if the match was over in her earshot, and when they heard it was done, the staffer said, “Thank god for that.”
It is believed that Roberts took offense and lau♚nched an attack on the unnamed worker.
Allegedly referring to her children, Roberts can be heard shouting: “They are f–king crying right now you f–king queer — dirty f–king f-g.”
The worker whom she shouted at said: “Her actions were completely out of order for the wife of a celebrity boxer. What I asked was not meant to take offense and it was simply a question about the match.
“After we found out that Tony lost the fight, I thought she was using the anger of Tony’s loss and directing it at us.”
The employees in the elevator had been working behind a b🌳ar away from the main ring at the Manchꦇester Arena.
The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, left the stadium via the staff and guest elevator wiꦡth another colleague.
“It had been a busy night and I just wanted to desperately get home after a long shift,” he said.
“However, after stepping into the elevator with my colleague, I was joined by a woman in a black dress who was accompanied by a security guard and another woman from the boxing sponsor. We never knew it was Rachael Roberts.
“As the elevator descended from the second floor of the stadium to the ground floor, I then asked if the match had finished because our bar was not in the main arena and so we couldn’t see the main actions in the arena.”
He said the woman with Roberts said the fight was over, and his colleague then commented: “Thank god for that.”
But he claims Roberts replied: “How f–king dare you, do you know who I am?”
His colleague responded, “Excuse me,” he said, and then she started to make remarks about his colleague’s sexuality, it is alleged, and he started filming.
A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said that no incident ꧂had been reported to them.
Tony Bellew’s management company did not respond to a request for comment.