Tony Bellew has slammed David Haye for threatening to put him in hospital when they meet next year.The two Britons clashed at a heated press conference on Wednesday and amid the arguments Haye told Bellew: Lets see whos around your hospital bed on March 4. His life is on the line.The pair then scuffled as they posed for photographs, with Haye hitting Bellew who shoved him back.Bellew, 34, was more critical of Hayes comments, with Germany-based super-middleweight Eduard Gutknecht still in a coma at a London hospital following a fight against George Groves on Nov. 18.British middleweight Nick Blackwell, meanwhile, needed surgery to reduce swelling on his brain after being injured in a sparring session last week.Blackwell had retired from boxing after being placed in an induced coma following a brain injury sustained in a fight against Chris Eubank Jr. in March.Im disgusted in David throwing a punch like that and some of the things he said, Bellew told reporters.He got too close and I just pushed him off and he caught me with a left hook to the head. He was a bit jumpy and nervous.Some of the things he said, saying you are going to a hospital bed while a boxer is in a coma just up the road, you just dont brag about things like that.We dont need clowns like him saying Im going to leave you in hospital.I thought it was distasteful saying that because there are boxers in comas at the moment. Theres a line and he crossed it.Ive got previous so Im not perfect. But hes just not a nice person. Hes forgot where hes come from.Bellew will step up to heavyweight after one defence of his WBC world cruiserweight title and is not ruling out a permanent switch to the division if he beats Haye, a former world heavyweight and cruiserweight champion.If I knock out David Haye theres a new sheriff in town, Bellew told reporters.I would love to be a two-weight world champion.Im 16 stone right now. I will eat as clean as possible and I will try and stay off the KFC. 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RIO DE JANEIRO? -- At least one member of Australias traveling party believes it would be a mistake to give the early darlings of the mens basketball tournament zero shot at an upset Wednesday night when the Boomers take on the highly favored United States.Its always possible, mate, Australia assistant coach and former NBA championship-winning center Luc Longley said Monday after an impressive 95-80 win over Serbia moved the Americans next opponent to a surprising 2-0 in Group A.There are no impossibilities in basketball.Yet it should be stressed that Longley, like all of Australias players, is realistic about the challenge ahead, even after their stirring victories over a top medal contender in France and a Serbian squad that finished second to the United States in the 2014 FIBA World Cup.The only thing Longley was prepared to guarantee about Wednesday nights game at the Carioca Arena 1 in Rio is that the Australians will try to make it as scrappy as possible, with Matthew Dellavedova leading that charge at point guard and physical big men Andrew Bogut and Aron Baynes in the frontcourt.That should be the first thing we write on our whiteboard every game: Lets not be fun to play against, said Longley, who has moved into coaching after a playing career that featured three rings with the Chicago Bulls in the Michael Jordan era.I think coming into the tournament, everyone would have looked at us and said, Were not looking forward to that game. Thats certainly the way the players want it to be. Its our brand of basketball. Its really the only way we have of punching above our weight class.The level of physicality in the matchup pitting Milwaukees Dellavedova against his former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Kyrie Irving will naturally get a lot of attention in the buildup to tipoff, but Dellavedova also happens to be coming off what might be his finest offensive performance in a national team jersey: 23 points and 13 assists (with zero turnovers) agaainst Serbia in support of Patty Mills team-high 26 points.ddddddddddddhis is the first time in Olympic mens play that Australia has managed a 2-0 start. In the quarterfinals of the 2012 Summer Games in London -- with Bogut unavailable because of injury -- Australia was typically feisty and made its presence felt, but ultimately couldnt prevent a 33-point defeat.Its the ultimate test, Bogut said of facing the United States, which will match him up against former teammates Klay Thompson and Draymond Green -- as well as Harrison Barnes -- for the first time since Bogut and Barnes moved on to the Dallas Mavericks in the wake of?Golden States acquisition of Kevin Durant.Theyre the best team in the world, best players in the world, so I think if we go out there with the right mindset and compete with them, win or lose, well be happy with that, Bogut continued. If we go out there and were intimidated by them and try and get our shoes signed before the game and a signed jersey, were in the wrong mindset.Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic, after watching Australia pull away late for another double-digit win on top of the Aussies impressive 21-point rout of Tony Parker-led France, said the front-line trio of Bogut, Baynes and David Andersen is second to none in the whole tournament in terms of intensity.They plan man basketball, said Serbia center Miroslav Raduljica, who scored a team-high 25 points Monday.Put a million dollars on it and youd probably get a dollar back if you bet on em, Bogut said of Team USA. So its a great challenge for us. It really gets us in a mindset of seeing what we gotta do to make our offense better and our defense better.Said Andersen, who played parts of three seasons in the NBA: Its like a Hail Mary I suppose youd call it. But were gonna go out there and give it our all and try to shake up the world. ' ' '