Vitali beat Chisora using only his right hand; his left hand may have been injured

By William Mackay: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (44-2, 40 KO’s) successfully defended his World Boxing Council title for the 8th title on Saturday night with a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision win over Dereck Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) at the Olympiahalle, in Munich, Germany.

The final judges’ scores told you all you need to know about the fight, as the judges scored it 118-110, 118-110 and 119-111. Vitali normally doesn’t lose any rounds, but fought most of the fight using only his right hand for some reason, and failed to jab or land very many left hooks.

After the fight, Vitali said this as quoted by Ringtv: “I fought with my right hand. I’m not ready to talk about it. It’s not excuses because I really wanted to knock him out very much.”

Without his jab, Vitali was forced to rely on using straight right hands and hooks to try and keep the shorter pressure fighter Chisora at bay. It didn’t work well, as Vitali wasn’t able to throw enough right hands to keep Chisora from crowding him and landing some big punches of his own and enough to win several rounds in the fight. However, as good as that was, Chisora still was completely dominated by Viali using only his right hand.

Chisora wasn’t about to give Vitaly any credit after the fight, saying “The only thing that beat me today was experience. I want another fight. I want a rematch or to fight his younger brother [Wladimir Klitschko].”

It might be difficult for Chisora to get a fight against either Klitschko because the fact of the matter is Chisora has now lost three out of his last four fights. It’s difficult to make an argument that Chisora should get a rematch or a fight against Wladimir with that many losses in his last three fights. More importantly, this loss will likely knock Chisora, #15 WBC, out of the top 15 rankings. Vitali and Wladimir can’t fight Chisora even if they wanted to once he’s no longer ranked in the top 15. Chisora needs to start from scratch and try and pick up some wins and stop losing all the time.

I don’t agree that the outcome would have been any different if Chisora had more experience because his game plan was perfect, and time won’t improve him any I feel. His power is set, his skills are set and it probably will only go downhill from here. He is what is he is – a slow, limited pressure fighter that fights well but not well enough to earn decisions. He doesn’t have enough power or hand speed to beat the better heavyweights in the division, and sadly that won’t change in one year, two years or five years. Chisora is the finished product right now, but he’s just not good enough. He needs to stop losing and get some wins under his belt because three losses out of his last four fights speaks volumes for what he is.

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