By William Mackay: Don Charles, the trainer for British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) thinks his fighter Chisora is going to pull off a huge upset of IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on December 11th, if the Chisora-Klitschko fight can be successfully negotiated. In an interview by Paul Foley at Boxrec.com, Charles says “Leon Spinks won the heavyweight title after just eight fights, so why not? Just like Leon, we are going to shock the world.”

The difference here is that Spinks won the heavyweight title against a 36-year-old Muhammad Ali, who at that point in his career was pretty much a shot fighter. Although young compared to some of the heavyweights today, Ali was an old fighter by his 36th birthday and didn’t have much left at that point. Indeed, after Ali came back to beat Spinks in a rematch later on in 1978, Ali would lose his final two bouts of his career to Larry Holmes and Trevor Bernick.

Klitschko, however, is still fighting very strong at 34, and has a considerable size, speed, experience, and power advantage over Chisora. In every category, Klitschko has a big advantage. Chisora still hasn’t even faced top European level opponents yet, and here would be asked to take on one of top fighters in the world with Klitschko.

It would be asking a lot for the 6’1”, slow moving, slow punching, averaged power Chisora to beat Klitschko. It’s not impossible but it would like playing the lottery. The odds would be stacked against Chisora to do anything other than to lose badly.

Charles says “Klitschko is made for my boy. We will put him on the back foot. He is ready for the taking. He doesn’t like fighting. We will make him work.” I can see Klitschko fighting on his back foot and still lighting Chisora up with jabs, left hooks and right hands as he plods forward throwing looping shots.

In a lot of ways, Chisora’s technique is even worse than David Haye’s. At least with Haye, he’s smart enough to realize he needs to stay on the outside to protect his glass jaw. Haye makes huge gambles by throwing big wide pot shots that would put him at a big disadvantage against a good heavyweight like Wladimir.

With Chisora, virtually everything he throws is wide shots until he gets in close where he is a decent inside fighter. However, Klitschko doesn’t fight on the inside and would simply shut the smaller Chisora down by grabbing him. Once the referee separates them, Wladimir would then resume pounding Chisora with jabs, left hooks and right hands from the outside.