By Scott Gilfoid: Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) is being given a once in a lifetime heavyweight title shot against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) on February 18th at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany.

This is straight out of a Sylvester Stallone Rocky move where a low ranking contender Rocky gets selected by heavyweight champion Apollo Creed for a title shot. That’s where the comparison ends, however.

Chisora, a huge underdog in this fight, won’t likely be pulling a Rocky and defeating Vitali on February 18th. I mean anything is possible and there is a one a million chance that Chisora can land a big right hand and catch Vitali perfectly with it to send him crashing to the canvas or badly hurt him enough to where Chisora can flurry on him to get a TKO win.

I just don’t see it happening. If Chisora is going to win this fight its going be with Vitali injuring himself in some manner. It’s happened once before in his career when he tore up his shoulder in his fight with Chris Byrd in April 2000 and this enabled Byrd to get a 9th round stoppage win in a fight he was badly trailing in at the time of the stoppage.

But without a rare injury popping up and hobbling Vitali to the point of a stoppage, he’s going to beat up Chisora to the point where a while towel will likely need to be tossed into the ring by Chisora’s trainer to halt the slaughter.

Chisora says he’s not going to be easy to hit but everything I see in his game suggests he will be easy to hit and he will get bashed around the ring. The style he uses is fine against certain types of fighters but it’s not going to be effective Vitali or the better heavyweights in the division.

Chisora was able to shine a little against Robert Helenius with only one good arm working for him last December, but he’s going to be facing Vitali with two good arms and it’s going to go badly for Chisora. He doesn’t have big power or blazing hand speed to get an edge against Vitali. Chisora is shorter, slower, weaker, less experienced and less talented than Vitali. It’s going to be a brutal slaughter on February 18th.