Bellew: Chilemba knows what’ll happen if he trades shots with me

By Boxing News - 05/22/2013 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: WBC Silver light heavyweight champion Tony Bellew (19-1-1, 12 KO’s) thinks he’s going to have too much power for #3 WBC Isaac Chilemba (20-1-2, 9 KO’s) in their rematch this Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, UK. Bellew thinks that if Chilemba decides to trade shots with him, he’ going to smash the defensive artist.

Bellew said to I Film London “He’s not going to stand and trade. If he stands and trades it’s not realistic. I he stands and trades with me you know what’s going to happen. When the going gets tough he’ll revert to type.”

The going got tough last March when Bellew and Chilemba fought each other, but instead of Bellew standing his ground, he put on his track shoes and ran for the last six rounds of the fight resulting in the fight being scored a 12 round draw.

Bellew thinks he should have won the fight despite admitting that he fought a dumb fight by letting Chilemba take over at the halfway point and not doing anything to get back in the fight.

Bellew doesn’t say why he wasn’t crushing Chilemba with his power shots when he stood and traded with him. One would think that if Bellew had the power to crush him in the past then he would have done it then. I can’t see how anything will change in the rematch. Bellew is too slow and he telegraphs his punches too much too land anything more than an occasional shot.

Chilemba will be the one that will do the hurting in this fight. He’s coming into the fight with a boat load of confidence from having easily out-boxed Bellew last time and he also discovered that he had the power to make Bellew afraid to throw punches.

Bellew wasn’t running because he was tired. He was running because he kept getting tagged each time he’d come in range, and he was having no luck in trying to land his own shots.



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