By Scott Gilfoid: Dereck Chisora (22-5, 14 KOs) doesn’t think it’s a good that David Haye has been trashing newly crowned IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) in the media. Chisora thinks that Haye should be saying good things about the 6’9” Fury due to him having recently beaten the long reigning heavyweight belt holder Wladimir Klitschko.
Chisora thinks that’s the Fury accomplished something special by beating the 39-year-old Wladimir, who many boxing fans see as a shot fighter.
“He [Haye] should show him [Fury] some respect,” Chisora said to skysports.com. “David has been out of the game for a while. He shouldn’t try and mug someone off after they have just achieved something big. Show the guy some respect.”
There is a couple of things that Chisora should know about Haye. First off, his natural personality is to be blunt and to say whatever he thinks. If Chisora is going to ask Haye not to be himself, then he is trying to change who he is.
If you ask Haye to stop blunt, then it’s not going to work well. Haye is 35 now, and you are not going to change who he is at this stage just because you think he should be gushing over Fury for his win over an over-the-hill Klitschko. The other thing that Chisora may not realize is that Fury has been trashing Haye lately after he mentioned that he would be interested in fighting him.
Fury struck first blood by going into a mini rant after learning that Haye wanted a mere crack at his titles. Heck, Fury acted like Haye just stole the crown jewels simply because he said he wants to fight him. Fury has seriously been acting weird ever since he won those titles. He’s been getting all up in arms when he finds out that different heavyweights want to fight him, as if none of them are good enough for him.
The reality is Fury is just a mediocre heavyweight who lucked into winning the world titles by fighting an old Wladimir, who still would have beaten him if he had the sense enough to know that he actually has to throw punches to win fights. Wladimir fought like he’d lost his mind completely by electing to throw almost no punches in the entire fight. I’ve never seen an experienced fighter lose his senses the way Wladimir did. How do you forget 20 years of fighting in one 12 round bout? Needless to say, it was very, very weird.
“If he [Haye] wants to fight him [Fury], just phone the guy and say ‘listen can we fight’ and get it on,” Chisora said. “I think David Haye would do okay, but Tyson would 100 per cent be the favorite.”
Of course, Fury would be the favorite right now in a fight against Haye. We are talking about a heavyweight who has not fought in three years when we talk about Haye. Heck, I would not be surprised if Haye would be the underdog in a fight against Chisora.
When you are talking about a fighter who has not fought in three years, then anything is possible. But with that said, I think Haye would be the favorite over the light hitting Fury if he were fighting on a regular basis.
Wladimir made the mistake of wasting too much time trying to setup his jabs against Fury. Instead of just going right hand crazy the way he should have done against a guy that is using tons of feints the way Fury was, Wladimir let himself get paralyzed. It was just a really dumb fight by Wladimir, because a novice could have figured out how to deal with Fury’s feints and movement.
Wladimir fought like he was paralyzed mentally with the stupid gimmicks that Fury was using. Believe me, if it had been Deontay Wilder in the ring with Fury, he would have understood immediately that he needed to decapitate him with right hands.
Deontay would not have wasted time with his jabs or left hooks. Like a brilliant surgeon, Deontay would have surgically operated on Fury. In other words, Wilder would have bet that his right hand would have been better than anything Fury could have thrown at him. Why Wladimir did not have the sense to know this himself is incredibly worrisome.
“What Tyson did in the first two rounds – every time Klitschko was setting his jab, Tyson was feinting and Klitschko had to reset again. For the first three rounds, Tyson was just feinting if you look at it,” Chisora said.
I wonder if this niceness thing from Chisora is a ploy for him to get selected by Fury for a third fight? If that’s the case, then I don’t see it working. Fury already battered Chisora twice in one-sided contests and there’s no point in them ever fighting each other again. Heck, the second fight made zero sense, and I was very surprised that the World Boxing Organization gave Chisora a No.1 ranking with the fluff that he had fought since his stoppage loss to Haye in 2012. Based off the wins that Chisora had accumulated since the Haye fight, I had him ranked dead bottom of the WBO’s rankings at No.15. I saw Chisora as a bottom feeder, and definitely not a No.1 contender the way the WBO did with their Mickey Mouse rankings.
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