Dereck Chisora was very lucky the Deontay Wilder fight didn’t happen

By Boxing News - 08/10/2013 - Comments

wilder44By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Derek Chisora (17-4, 11 KO’s) should be feeling very fortunate today that his proposed June 15th fight against the talented American heavyweight knockout artist Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) didn’t take place as briefly scheduled because I think it’s pretty clear that Chisora would have plodded into a monstrous right hand that would have sent him down and out.

Never the less, I think it would have been a terrible experience for Chisora, because it would have meant two knockout losses for him in his last three fights. Chisora was stopped in the 5th round by David Haye last year in July.

If Haye was able to KO Chisora in 5 rounds, then you’d have to round that number down considerably with Deontay facing him. I’m thinking that Chisora would last about 2 rounds against Deontay at best, and I’m being kind here.

I actually believe Deontay would have knocked Chisora out in the 1st round due to Chisora’s bad habit of plodding forward leading with his head. That would be like t-ball for Deontay. Chisora’s head would literally on a tee for Deontay to hit a homerun with it, and it would be pretty brutal to say the least.

Chisora looked mediocre in his last fight in beating Malik Scott by a controversial 6th round stoppage last month in London, England in a fight where the referee appeared to stop the fight at the count of 9 instead of 10. Chisora was losing the fight at the time of the stoppage, and like I said, he had been looking mediocre at heck in that fight. I mean, there was absolutely no improvement in his game from his losses to Haye and Tyson Fury. Chisora was the same slow, plodding heavyweight he’d been in those fights.

Next month, Chisora will be fighting against a still to be determined opponent on September 21st at the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom. It’s not exactly a good sign that the fight is a little more than a month away and Chisora still doesn’t have an opponent lined up. How do you get boxing fans excited about a fight when the opponent isn’t picked out well ahead of time?



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