THIS is the shocking moment a DHL driver beat up a couple during a parking row – after repeatedly boasting he was a boxer.

The chaos erupted in Herne, Germany, when a couple confronted the driver over his allegedly illegally parked van.

Footage captured on a bystander’s phone shows the argument spiralling out of control on August 6 at around 4.30pm on Hospitalstraße, reports German newspaper Bild.

The driver ranted: “I’m working here, and you call me ‘monkey’? If you’re a man, put on your boxing gloves and we’ll go spar.”

He then added: “I’m working, you can’t hit it like that” – referring to his van, which the man, 54, had reportedly punched earlier.

After heated words, the DHL driver lunged at the 42-year-old woman and hit her in the face.

She shouted: “Take your hands off me. Get in, don’t come near me.”

Her partner added: “Take your hand off my wife’s face, my friend, really quick.”

The driver then taunted: “Do you want to hit me?” to which the woman replied: “Do you think I have a problem with that? You shouldn’t try that, you won’t survive, get in your car.”

He shot back: “I’m a boxer, but I had a nose job, I can’t hit myself.”

She mocked him, saying: “Then put on your boxing gloves, you **. You won’t survive if you get in the ring with me.”

Suddenly, the driver went berserk, punching the woman and continuing to attack her partner, knocking him backward over a hedge.

The driver returned to his vehicle, repeatedly shouting: “I’m a sick boxer.”

Police arrested the driver at the scene. DHL has fired him, and a colleague later collected the van.

Resident Marta T., 18, who witnessed the crime, told Bild: “The way the DHL driver suddenly and brutally attacked was horrible. Punching a woman in the face like that without warning – I was stunned.”

A child in the couple’s car was reportedly “terrified”, she added.

Authorities have launched a criminal investigation for grievous bodily harm.

Police spokesperson Marco Bischoff said: “The woman sustained minor injuries and had to be treated as an outpatient at the hospital.”

The suspect is reportedly already known to police for assault, theft and property damage.

DHL spokesperson Sarah Preuß told Bild: “We are shocked by what is shown in it. As a company, we firmly reject any form of violence and aggressive behaviour.”

She added: “Neither at the time of hiring nor at any later point did we have any indication that the former employee was known to the police or had even committed a crime.”