Petra Ecclestone's fiancé Sam Palmer challenges James Stunt to a 'no holds barred street fight'

Sam Palmer, Petra Ecclestone’s fiancé, has challenged her ex James Stunt to a fight in an attempt to put an end to their feud and donate £60k to the NHS.

Former electrician Sam took to Instagram to challenge James – who has three children with Petra and was married to the heiress from 2011-2017 – to a ‘no holds barred street fight’ so he can ‘smash him to pieces’.

Sam, 35, claimed in his Instagram Live that he was sick of being ‘attacked and followed’ online by James, 38, and his ‘army’, and that he wants to formally adopt James’ three children – Lavinia, seven, and twins Andrew and James Jr, both five – form his marriage to Petra, 31.

‘Sick of it!’ Sam Palmer, Petra Ecclestone’s fiancé, has challenged her ex James Stunt to a fight in an attempt to put an end to their feud and donate £60k to the NHS

Sam claimed that James makes no effort with the children, despite him and Petra attempting to set up Skype calls with their father, which he ‘doesn’t show up’ for.

He also accused him of pretending to be wealthy and taking drugs, even offering to provide a COVID-19 test so the fight does not risk any infection amid the current global pandemic.

Sam said in the video: ‘I’m sick to death of the abuse that Petra’s ex-husband and his army (I say army, it’s about four people) just throw constantly at us! I’ve tried to be the bigger man and ignore it and not give him the energy, because that’s what he wants, but to be honest I’m just sick of it!’

‘Let’s put an end to this James. You clearly hate me and I hate you with a passion. I hate you so much because one day I’ll have to explain to your children that their biological father – or sperm donor – is a whack job sitting on the internet talking about doing cocaine.

Challenge: Former electrician Sam took to Instagram to challenge James – who has three children with Petra and was married to the heiress from 2011-2017 – to a ‘no holds barred street fight’ so he can ‘smash him to pieces

Sam, 35, claimed in his Instagram Live that he was sick of being ‘attacked and followed’ online by James, 38, and his ‘army’, and that he wants to formally adopt James’ three children

Petra and James are the parents to Lavinia, seven, and twins Andrew and James Jr, both five – pictured last winter with Sam

‘Let’s have a fight for charity. I’ll give £30,000 to the NHS and you can match it because you’re a billionaire. There’s no football so we can sell live streams. We can do what you want, UFC, head guards. I’d prefer a no holds barred street fight. Let’s go all out – you smash me to pieces, I’ll smash you to pieces.’

Sam made stipulations, saying: ‘I’ll provide you with security. I can get hold of a couple of coronavirus tests so I can do them on you on the morning of the fight to make sure you’re healthy, because last time I saw you you weren’t looking too good.

‘We’ll live stream it from the garden. I f**king hate you so I’m looking forward to smashing you to pieces. If I win the fight I want you to legally sign the children over to me so I can formally adopt them so that they can have a father to be proud of.’

Sam continued: ‘We can raise a lot of money! I’m not a fighting man so there’s nothing to be afraid of. James, you’ve told me a thousand times you’re gonna cut me up and spread me around Regent Street or whatever. I am giving you your chance!

‘I wont be letting this go. I was, and am trying to mind my own business, trying to look after his kids but you’ve pushed me so let’s get going, lets get ready to rumble!’

Sam Palmer’s fight challenge to James Stunt in full

‘Hello everyone, as promised I’ll start my live. The reason for this is I’m sick to death of the abuse that Petra’s ex-husband and his army (I say army, it’s about four people) just throw constantly at us!

‘I’ve tried to be the bigger man and ignore it and not give him the energy, because that’s what he wants, but to be honest I’m just sick of it.

‘I’ll be addressing a few issues with him and telling the story. I’m sick of lies, I get threats telling me I’m a terrible person and that I’ve stopped him seeing his children. But the reality is I fell in love with a girl and she has three beautiful children. And when I decided I wanted to take it forward with Petra, I decided that I would take her children. I did and I love them from the bottom of my heart.

‘It’s draining on my life for people to say things every day about me.

‘Let’s clear up a few things: James is allowed to see his children. What he has to do is take a cocaine test which he refuses to do. He hasn’t seen them for over a year. I facilitated the Skype. I tried to get him to see his children but he didn’t show up. He turned up to one of them smoking. He stopped doing that.

‘He constantly bombards us with hate because he can’t earn money. He did one deal by himself and the rest was funded by Petra! He created this billionaire lifestyle with the cars and going out and it has all stopped since he stopped things with Petra.

‘He says I troll him daily from fake accounts. I watch him from a fake account. I don’t need to troll you – I’ll speak to you like this. I called you for four hours to say why didn’t you send your kids a birthday present if you’re a billionaire?

‘Let’s have a fight for charity. We could do it in my own compound in my garden. You know where it is because you were kicked out of it and you know because you kicked your wife and kids out of here and commandeered it!

‘I’ll give £30,000 to the NHS and you can match it because you’re a billionaire. There’s no football so we can sell live streams. We can do what you want, UFC, head guards. I’d prefer a no holds barred street fight. Let’s go all out – you smash me to pieces, I’ll smash you to pieces.

‘The stipulations: I want to raise as much as I can for the NHS. I’ll provide you with security. I can get hold of a couple of coronavirus tests so I can do them on you on the morning of the fight to make sure you’re healthy, because last time I saw you you weren’t looking too good.

‘I’d like to do a couple more tests on you because last time I saw you you stank of s**t and p**s. I’ll come on to why I went to his house the other day…

‘You can put up £30k. Last time I saw you you waved your watch and said that’s a million quid and I said no its not its £150K because Petra bought it for you. You could put that watch up, I’ll value it and it goes to the NHS.

‘To be honest with you, that name of yours wont get them anywhere in life. You stop talking about me, my family, my father-in-law who is an 89 year old man, who’s done amazing things for the world.

‘If you win, as you’re a bit hard up at the moment, I’ll pay your rent for a year. We’ll do this for the NHS. Hopefully you’ve got the balls. We’re doing anything we can for the NHS.

‘We can have a good day out. I’d like to extend this to the fruit loops. Every day I’ll fight different idiots another day and any mugs who wanna have a go.

‘We can raise a lot of money! I’m not a fighting man so there’s nothing to be afraid of. James, you’ve told me a thousand times you’re gonna cut me up and spread me around Regent Street or whatever. I am giving you your chance!

‘You clearly hate me because you cant stop talking about me. I’m told don’t lower yourself but I can do what I want. I get something out of it because I get to smash your head in.

‘I heard him talk about when I went round his house and I’ll tell you the story because it’s been blown up that i was running away.

‘I didn’t know it was the day he got evicted from his house and he was sending my sister-in-law messages saying this is the end which could’ve been construed that he was gonna top himself so I went over there and said to Petra it’s to say I can say I’ve done everything I can.

‘Got there he was sitting on his bed with that bird in a suit smoking and I stuck my head in the window and said I wasn’t there to beat you up I was just checking up on you. He invited me in and I said I don’t want to go in your grotty house because I don’t like you!’

‘I went with security because I didn’t know if he was dead. He started screaming at the young girl – he said get in the house you f**king w***e. That’s nice. – that’s him all over.

‘I left and said stop sending messages to me and my family! People say don’t do this, the kids will look at this. We are here raising them, bathing them, teaching them football and how to read and write…

‘The challenge is out there. Please tag him and his k**bhead friends. Let’s keep this going. I wanna keep fit. People will see a fight and it will be brilliant. If you don’t take the challenge I please ask you to stop talking about me and my family.

‘People keep saying how can Petra allow this and the answer is – you push a man far enough and this happens!

‘I am not scared of you. I am at the end of my tether! This could be the pay per view of London!

‘I hope everyone’s staying safe. I wont be letting this go. I was, and am trying to mind my own business, trying to look after his kids but you’ve pushed me so let’s get going, lets get ready to rumble!’

James took to Instagram to post a cheerful-looking photo of himself, seemingly responding to Sam’s video.

He wrote: ‘I am ignoring the immature goading of others. I love my friends and followers very much ❤️❤️’

Last month, the disgraced tycoon was thrown out of his £13 million property in Belgravia as he was unable to pay the mortgage; and creditors owed millions of pounds by him are urgently hunting for a number of valuable works of art, worth as much as £6 million.

However, the location and status of the pictures – which creditors hoped could be sold to raise funds to pay Stunt’s other debts – is now unclear.

‘We are investigating whether Stunt moved the art out of the house before he was evicted and where the paintings are now,’ one creditor told The Mail on Sunday.

‘The key issue is who is responsible for his art collection, and its legal status as asset. He could have dispersed the art. We are going to find out.’

Only one mystery painting emerged from the house when it was repossessed by bailiffs.

Stunt, who took to social media to claim he was still a billionaire, is believed to be staying with a friend.

His art collection has been at the centre of a storm since last November when this newspaper revealed that four valuable paintings, which he had lent to Prince Charles for public display, were in fact fakes.

Stunt is understood to own a a van Dyck and a Monet. Sir Anthony van Dyck’s ‘Portrait of a man with a gloved hand’ is pictured left, while Monet’s Fir Trees at Varengeville is pictured right

Only one mystery painting emerged from the house when it was repossessed by bailiffs. Stunt, who took to social media to claim he was still a billionaire, is believed to be staying with a friend

They were part of a collection of 17 pictures that the former bullion dealer had given the Prince on loan.

They were hung in Dumfries House, a Palladian mansion in Scotland which Charles rescued for the nation and which now serves as the headquarters of his charitable foundation.

They were passed off as a ‘Monet’, a ‘Picasso’, a ‘Dali’ and a work by ‘Chagall’. They had a supposed insurance value of £120 million but were worth only £20,000 each, having been painted by US forger Tony Tetro.

All 17 of the paintings Stunt lent Charles, including some genuine artworks, were removed. The whereabouts of these pictures is unclear.

Stunt is also understood to own a £2.1 million Monet, a £1.6 million Chagall, two paintings by Pissarro worth £800,000 between them, a van Dyck and a wine collection worth £400,000.

He has previously pledged to sell these to pay his creditors but when he was made bankrupt in June last year, it became clear he had not done so.

His behaviour was branded ‘appalling’ in court. His debts include a bill of £3.9 million to Christie’s for a Picasso and almost a quarter of a million pounds to the law firm that handled his 2017 divorce from Petra Ecclestone, the Formula 1 heiress, with whom he has three children.

Last week’s eviction is the culmination of his spectacular fall from wealth and status.

West One Loan Ltd, with whom he had a mortgage, pinned a notice of possession on the front door of his home in Belgravia.

Two luxury apartments in Chelsea Harbour, worth £5 million each, have also been repossessed.

Stunt’s assets have been frozen under a Restraint Order obtained by the Crown Prosecution Service.

This has left him with limited control over his art, as well as his fleet of supercars. Last year the order was varied to allow him to sell some assets.

Stunt has consistently denied commissioning, owning or attempting to sell fake art.