Chisora wants Erkan Teper in September for EBU title

By Boxing News - 07/25/2015 - Comments

chisrora5By Scott Gilfoid: Former world title challenger Dereck Chisora (21-5, 14 KOs) says he wants to fight for the EBU heavyweight title next September against European Boxing Union heavyweight champion Erkan Teper (15-0, 10 KOs) if he can get the fight with him. Chisora would in effect be avenging, or at least, attempting to avenge the defeat of fellow Brit David Price, who was trounced by Teper in two rounds a little over a week ago in Germany.

Certainly fighting for the EBU title at Chisora’s age has to be seen as a backwards career move. I mean, I can’t imagine a fighter who was recently ranked No.1 by the World Boxing Organization last November going backwards to fight for an EBU title rather than moving his career forward to try and get fights against top 10 talents.

“I think it’s going to be a busy year for me this year,” Chisora said. “To be honest with you, I’d like to challenge for the European title in Germany with the guy that knocked out David Price. I think I can remedy that and show him and fight him. If that fight happens, I’ll run and do that in September. Everybody keeps talking about the Russian kid Ustinov. If that fight happens and there’s good money for me, I’d love to do it in Russia, because I got bigger fans in Russia. I’ll embarrass him in front of his Russian fans,” Chisora said.

The 6’5” Teper would likely be seen as the favorite if he were to face Chisora, because he’s a bigger puncher, and he’s got a left hook that is lethal. It doesn’t matter that Price has a chin problem. Teper has legitimate huge punching power, and I think he would put Chisora in big trouble if the two of them were to face each other.

If a slapper like Tyson Fury was able to make Chisora quit, you can only imagine what a huge puncher like Teper would do to him.

Chisora defeated Beqa Lobjanidze (13-4, 11 KOs) by a 1st round knockout last Friday night at the Wembley Arena in London, UK. Chisora threw a looping right hand that crashed into Lobjanidze’s jaw, sending him down on the canvas on all fours.

The fight was stopped at that point. However, before you get excited about the win, you have to realize that most top 10 heavyweights wouldn’t have gotten hit with a silly punch like that. I mean, Chisora telegraphed the punch from a mile away, and Lobjanidze had ample opportunity to get his guard up, step back, duck or move to the side to evade the shot. The punch wouldn’t have connected on a good fighter, and Chisora would have been countered with the way he left himself wide open to throw the shot.

“That’s definitely an option for the next fight,” Chisora’s promoter Francis Warren said. “Dereck needs to be fighting names and fighting meaningful fights. You’ve got names out there – Teper, Browne, Stiverne. There are some names out there where Dereck should be back at the top.”

I think it’s a bad idea to match Chisora against Teper, Lucas Browne or Bermane Stiverne. Those guys are all solid punchers, and better at the type of game that Chisora does than he is. I see them all as improved versions of Chisora. If they were robots, I’d classify them as an upgrade from the Chisora model. If Chisora tries mix it up with Teper, Browne and Stiverne, I see it going badly for Chisora because those guys hit too hard.

Alexander Ustinov, 6’7”, would also be a real problem for Chisora, and I can’t see anything good coming of that fight for Chisora other than him losing and having his career put on the rocks.



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