Klitschko vs. Chisora: Dereck needs to take Wladimir into deep waters

By Dave Lahr: There are a numbers of ways that unbeaten British heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) can choose to beat IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on April 30th at the SAP-Arena, in Mannheim, Germany. But perhaps the best way is to try and take the 34-year-old Wladimir into deep waters and drown him in the second half of the fight by setting a fast pace that wears down the tall 6’6″ Ukrainian. Wladimir is like a big truck that’s used to moving at slower speeds.

When you take him on the autobahn and get him going at 80 Mph, he’s not going to last long at those speeds without slowing down and needing constant pit stops to rest his engine. Klitschko’s pits stops, naturally, will be in the form of constant clinching. Usually, Wladimir’s opponents are sluggish, weak opponents, who all are all too happy to clinch along with Wladimir to rest along with him.

Chisora isn’t one of those old, weak or sloppy fighter. Chisora doesn’t need constant rest breaks and he’s going to be fight back against Wladimir by denying him the chance for resting on the inside with his constant clinch breaks. What’s going to happen then is that Wladimir is going to be like a man walking across a hot desert in his bare feet. He’s going to want an oasis to rest and drink water to recover. However, Chisora won’t allow Wladimir to clinch on the inside and is going to keep pounding him and fighting through the clinching. If you look at Wladimir’s fights with Eddie Chambers, Samuel Peter, Ruslan Chagaev, Hasim Rahman and Tony Thompson, to name just a few, you’ll notice that Wladimir needed constant clinching in order to rest.

None of those fighters were wise enough to realize that it wasn’t smart to just let Wladimir hug on the inside. They basically let their opportunity to win those fights get away from them by allowing Wladimir to hold them each time they got close instead of pounding him with their free hands while being held. Believe me, Chisora is going to keep punching and is going to be lighting up Wladimir in close with clubbing shots to the side of the head.

If Wladimir turns his head, exposing the back of his head, like he did against Samuel Peter, Chisora isn’t going to ask for permission to slug Wladimir at the exposed part of the back of his head. He’s going to do what I would do by clubbing Wladimir with some nice rabbit shots. Hey, when a fighter turns their back to you, you have to keep swinging at whatever’s there.

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