The Long Awaited Fight

On Saturday Chisora joined tennis player Murray, who was in the audience, in the ‘runner up club’. David Hay applauded Chisora on his ability to take punches but that didn’t make the blow any easier. Our sources say that only a couple of hours before the fight, Chisora was happily munching away at a restaurant. Now I’m not a sports expert but when you feed up a horse before a race they don’t tend to run as well…

The support for Chisora wasn’t as strong as Haye with the rowdy crowd swearing and booing him on his entrance to the ring.

Many schools of thought feel that Haye won all of the rounds but it was close all the way through and in the Third, Chisora may have pipped Haye to the post or rather Haye’s head hit the post when Chisora carried on punching after the bell which is controversial but some say the bell wasn’t that loud…. In the 5th round Chisora went down twice before the referee finally called a knock out and for a relieved Chisora, it is all over.

 

By Phillipa

Chisora for world heavy weight champion!

Dereck Chisora is in the running for the world heavy weight title next month in Munich, Germany where he will be fighting Vitali Klitschko. In one of the early press conferences Klitschko said that Chisora was chosen despite only having had 14 fights and being merely 26, one of the youngest to go for the heavy weight title. He was chosen for his remarkable performance last September when he knocked out Sam Sexton in the ninth round. Klitschko also said that it’s not about how many fights a man has had but it’s about the confidence that he shows and he believes that Dereck shows this kind of confidence.

At the point Dereck was chosen for the heavy weight title fight, he was the British undefeated champion. Dereck was very confident about the fight and his ability to win. He said in the press conference ‘It is not going to be a boxing match; it is going to be a fight.’ He also continued to say ‘I will do whatever it takes to win. I’ll take him out of his comfort zone and ruff him up.’ Klitschko’s response to this was mainly positive apart from asking ‘please don’t bite me’ referring to a previous match against Paul Butlin.

Monday saw the Landmark Hotel in London host part of the promotional tour publicising February’s world title fight between Klitschko and Chisora. The waiting press got a sneak peak sign of things to come when ‘Del Boy’ Chisora arrived at the hotel in his signature battered yellow three-wheeler Reliant Robin. The light-hearted nature continued inside the conference as the fighters were asked questions. Chisora wasted no time in reminding Klitschko that many boxing fans find the Ukrainian’s style dull. “I’ll have Europe, America and Africa on my side” the former British champion claimed. When Vitali asked whether China would also support him Chisora quickly replied “China’s never heard of me but when I whip you’re a***s they’ll know all about me.”

Dereck Chisora may be saying that he’s ready to win the heavy weight world title but many fans doubt his ability to win after the poor defense of his British title. Chisora was clearly in poor shape and boxed nowhere near his full potential when he lost to Fury. Chisora’s next fight was also a loss but in terms of performance it was complete opposites he was back on top game. Dereck Chisora was robbed by the judges in a split decision loss against Finland’s Robert Helenius for the European title. His performance was deserving of a win.

Few people think that February the 18th will see Dereck Chisora crowned as the new WBC world champion but with his vigorous training and confident view I think we could see ‘Vitali going down in the eighth round’.

By Sophie McCormack

Boxing fixtures for December 2011 – April 2012

Dereck Chisora is a Zimbabwean-born English professional heavyweight boxer, and is a former British heavyweight champion. (He lost his title to Tyson Fury on 23 July 2011). He was also the Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion in 18 September 2010 – 15 July 2011 but once again was succeeded by Tyson Fury.

Up coming fights.

Friday, December 23 — at Bangkok, Thailand
WBC flyweight title: Pongsaklek Wonjongkam vs. Hirofumi Mukai
WBC light flyweight title: Adrian Hernandez vs. Kompayak Porpramook

Friday, December 30 — at Palm Springs, CA
Jermain Taylor vs. Jessie Nicklow
Andre Dirrell vs. Darryl Cunningham

Saturday, December 31 — at Anaheim, CA (Showtime)
IBF light heavyweight title: Tavoris Cloud vs. Zsolt Erdei
WBA super bantamweight title: Rico Ramos vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux

Saturday, March 3 — at Düsseldorf, Germany
WBC heavyweight title: Vitali Klitschko vs. TBA

Saturday, March 17 — at TBA, USA (HBO)
Sergio Martinez vs. TBA

Saturday, April 14 — at Copenhagen, Denmark
WBO super middleweight title: Robert Stieglitz vs. Mikkel Kessler