Chisora trying to lose weight for Malik Scott fight on July 20th

By Boxing News - 06/22/2013 - Comments

chisora45By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (16-4, 10 KO’s) is reportedly dieting to take off blubber for his July 20th fight against American heavyweight Malik Scott (35-0-1, 12 KO’s) at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, United Kingdom. The fight is scheduled for 10 rounds and Chisora, 29, will be the hometown fighter in this one.

Chisora said to thesun.co.uk “I am feeling great and my new diet is bringing the weight off. I have no idea what the diet is. I go and see this company, they put me on a machine, do tests and then deliver the food and I eat it.”

I don’t like the way this sounds. I wonder how much blubber Chisora put on after his 9th round TKO win over journeyman Hector Alfredo Avila last April. It’s not as if that was a long time ago or anything. It was just a couple of months ago and Chisora looked like he always looks, kind of chunky. If he’s on a diet now you have to think he put on weight and that’s not good considering he’s facing a very talented fighter in Malik Scott.

The thing with diets is that a fighter can take the weight off and look good, but it frequently leaves them weak and not where they were before they started the diet. That’s why you often see fighters going downhill once they start getting fat in between fights because the effort to take off all that lard leaves them weaker than they were before. They’re almost better off keeping the fat on and just making minor reductions in their diet to keep their strength up.

If Chisora is going to a diet center to take weight off then I have a feeling he’s going to take off too much weight and end up too weak to fight.

I see Scott giving Chisora a boxing lesson and really wearing him down in the 2nd half of the fight when Chisora’s weight problems will start showing their effects on him.



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