By Sean McDaniel: David Haye (25-2, 23 KO’s) is favored to defeat Dereck Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) tonight in London when they get it on at Upton Park in front of a crowd that should be well over 30,000. It’s going to be a huge event, and it’s going to be interesting to see which fighter cracks under the pressure of the event.

Haye feels that Chisora doesn’t have the class to be in with him to begin with, and he believes he’s going to smack Chisora back down to the domestic level from which he came. To be sure, Chisora has definitely struggled recently, losing three out of his last four fights. Even if you take away one of the losses in Chisora’s controversial defeat at the hands of Robert Helenius, there’s no question that Chisora has lost two out of his last four fights. Fighting good enough to lose isn’t going to get the job done.

Haye said to thesun.co.uk “I am fighting a serial loser in Chisora, and he will find a way to lose. When he has tried to step up in class he has been found wanting…The law hasn’t punished him properly for what he has done outside the ring either, so it’s down to me to make sure he’s punished.”

Haye, 210 lbs, will have to deal with a near 40 lb weight advantage for the 247 pound Chisora tonight, and that could be very difficult if Haye can’t blast Chisora out early like he’s been predicting. Haye thinks he can get Chisora out in one or two rounds, but if he doesn’t he’s going to have to deal with all that size and strength that Chisora has going for him. Chisora may be struggling in the ring against the better fighters, but you can’t question his chin or his power.

He hits hard and he can take a heck of a wallop from his opponents. At 210, Haye is going to have to throw sustained flurries if he wants to get Chisora out, because Haye’s one punch pot shots probably aren’t going to be enough to take Chisora out. Haye is going to need to bring in the heavy artillery if he wants to blast Chisora out tonight.