By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) received an indefinite ban by the World Boxing Council in addition to a fine for his behavior before, during and after his fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko recently. Chisora slapped Vitali during the weigh-in, spit in his brother Wladimir’s face and then got involved with a brawl with former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye after the Vitali fight.

Chisora still has to meet with the British Boxing Board of Control next month to see what they’ll be doing. It’s assumed that Chisora will be fined and will receive some kind of suspension, but not a lifetime variety. The British Boxing Board’s penalization for Chisora will likely hurt him a great deal more than the WBC ban because Chisora’s fan base is at home in England and he’d likely be fighting in front of small crowds if he decides to leave the UK and fight elsewhere.

It would take him a while to build up a decent amount of fans if he fights out of country. But with the WBC, Chisora still can get ranked with the IBF, WBA and WBO and he’ll do alright. He doesn’t need the WBC in order to get a world ranking and fight for a title. However, Chisora does need to start winning a little more because he’s three out of his last four fights and has been beaten by domestic level, European level and now World level fighters. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be an issue about Chisora being banned by the WBC, not with him losing all the time.

Chisora will need to take anger management classes in order to get ranked again with the WBC, but who knows how long that will take? It’s hardly worth the bother. Chisora should just get ranked by one of the other sanctioning bodies. But the guy needs to start winning some fights for a change. He doesn’t throw enough punches, is easy to hit as all heck, and doesn’t punch hard enough. In a word Chisora is flawed. He seems to get more attention to himself with sometimes out of bounds behavior rather than for what he’s doing in the ring. That’s not good. He does all the mind games like Haye, but then doesn’t produce in the ring.

With the exception of the fine by the WBC, I see this ban as being meaningless. Chisora’s chances of ever getting ranked high enough to get another title shot are slim and none unless he faces 2nd and 3rd tier guys each time he fights. I doubt that any of the heavyweight champions are going to just pick him from the bottom again like Vitali did to give him a shot because they’ll likely be worried about getting slapped and spit on by him before the fight even starts. Who wants to fight someone like that? Chisora may have burned his bridges, not just with a rematch with Vitali, but for other title fights unless he can somehow become a mandatory challenger to one of them, which I doubt.