By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (30-0, 30 KO’s) responded back nicely to Britain’s Dereck Chisora’s open letter today with his own plans of where he’s heading with his career. Instead of dissecting Chisora’s talent and trash talking him, Deontay basically said that he’ll fight Chisora as a last resort.
Deontay said that if WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko doesn’t retire and then if Tyson Fury chooses to not fight him, then he’ll fight Chisora. So Chisora is the number #3 option for Deontay instead the #1, but that’s where Chisora had Deontay so it’s kind of even.
Chisora’s first option was David Price. That fell through when Price announced today he was vacating his British and Commonwealth titles. Chisora’s second choice Tyson Fury ignored him, so that left Deontay as the third choice. Now it looks like Deontay isn’t an option so that leaves Chisora right back where he started from. I just hope whoever Chisora eventually gets is better than his last four opponents because they’ve been incredibly weak options.
Deontay said to Chisora on twitter via Fightnews:
“Here’s how its going: Vitali is retiring no doubt. I maybe fighting 4 vacant WBC. If not, then Fury. If not him, def YOU. I ACCEPT…No BS I’m very serious Mr. D. Chisora in the end of this Maze w/the belt & Fury if it’s not you then I don’t want to fight.”
When you look at it, I think Deontay could very well end up fighting Chisora, because I doubt Vitali will retire. If he was going to retire, he would have announced it already. He’s stringing it out for a reason, and that reason is likely because he wants to continue fighting. Let’s be real about this; Fury isn’t going to face Deontay. Fury talks a good game, but he’s not going to want to get in the ring against the 6’7″ Deontay, so that fight isn’t going to happen either. That leaves Deontay with no fight for the vacant heavyweight title, and no fight against Fury. The only one left will be Chisora. I classify that as another Nicolai Firtha type of opponent for Deontay, but a smaller version.
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