Chisora thinks he knows a shortcut to a world title shot

By Boxing News - 08/23/2013 - Comments

chisora6By Scott Gilfoid: The struggling British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (17-4, 11 KO’s) has lost 3 out of his last 5 fights in the last 2 years, and it’s difficult to imagine seeing Chisora fighting for a title for years to come. However, he thinks he knows a quick shortcut to get a world title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko by capturing the EBU heavyweight title.

Chisora thinks that if he captures the European heavyweight strap it’ll put him straight into a fight against the 6’6” Wladimir. In other words, Chisora will skip past higher ranked, and arguably much more talented heavyweight contenders like Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) simply by winning the EBU belt.

Chisora said “I want to get a whole of that European title, because that will set up a shot against Wladimir that I’ve been waiting on for 2 years.”

The current EBU heavyweight champion is Kubrat Pulev, but he’s fighting Tony Thompson on Saturday night to try and put himself in position to get a shot against Wladimir. I would assume that Pulev will be vacating the EBU belt, but that’s still not a given.

Chisora would lose badly to a heavyweight like Pulev, so if that’s who Chisora was hoping to beat to get a fight with Wladimir, then he needn’t bother. If Pulev gives up his strap, then Chisora could fight anyone of these guys: Robert Helenius, Denis Boytsov, Alexander Dimitrenko, or Richard Towers.

There’s no way that Chisora will get an immediate title shot if he beats one of those guys. Helenius probably won’t fight him, Boytsov would beat him, and Dimitrenko and Towers aren’t big enough fights to give Chisora a rankings boost. I mean, I could see Chisora scraping the bottom of the rankings if he beats one of those guys, but I don’t think Wladimir is going to do Chisora any favors by hand-picking him for a title shot like he’s done recently with Jean Marc Mormeck, Mariusz Wach and Francesco Pianeta.

I think Wladimir would have no problems fighting him except for the fact that Chisora was really acting out in an odd way in the run up to his fight with Vitali Klitschko. Even after Vitali beat him, Chisora got involved in a brawl with David Haye. I can’t see Wladimir wanting to fight someone as unpredictable out of the ring as Chisora. The only way I see Chisora getting a title shot against Wladimir is if he earns it by fighting to the #1 mandatory spot, and that’s going to take ages for that to happen.

I’d like to see Chisora travel to the U.S if he can and take on Deontay, but I don’t see that happening. Maybe it’s good for Chisora that he doesn’t come to the U.S, because Deontay would likely poleaxe worse than Haye did.

Chisora will be fighting next month on September 21st against an opponent still to be determined at the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom.



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