By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like #13 IBF Dereck Chisora can forget about him fighting new IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) in his next fight, because Martin is looking for much bigger game than a fringe level contender like the 32-year-old Chisora.
The 6’5” Martin says he was a unification fight against WBC champ Deontay Wilder or IBO/WBA/WBO belt holder Tyson Fury for his next fight. Martin wants the big money fights that count rather than wasting his tiome on the smaller fights that won’t bring him that much.
Martin isn’t afraid to fight the best, and he obviously must feel that he can beat Wilder and Fury for him to want to step inside the ring with them and mix it up.
Martin won the vacant IBF title last Saturday night with his 3rd round knockout win over Vyacheslav Glazkov. Martin didn’t get much credit for the victory because of Glazkov slipping and blowing out his right knee.
Glazkov suffered a torn ACL and a dislocated knee in the fall. However, what’s lost in all of this is the work that Martin did that caused Glazkov to slip. Martin had Glazkov looking plenty worried after he started quickly in the 3rd round, and it just looked like Glazkov moved too quickly to try and get out of the way of Martin’s big shots, causing him to hurt his knee.
If Glazkov had simply stayed in the pocket and tried to block Martin’s big shots with his gloves, then he likely wouldn’t have gotten hurt. I mean, Glazkov wouldn’t have hurt his knee. He might have been hurt by Martin’s big power shots. I guess it was a tradeoff.
“I want them both [Wilder and Fury,” Martin said. “I want all the best. That’s the next move. My time to shine will come. I’m a world champion now and I can say that the belt is in the right hands. I’m not going to sit around. I want to fight.”
As long as Martin is good with hanging around and waiting for a while, he could get a unification fight against Wilder or Fury after they get done with their next title defenses. Wilder has a title defense coming up against Alexander Povetkin that he needs to get taken care of by July of this year.
Fury has a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko that he needs to take care of in the next four to six months. Once the two heavyweight champions are done defending their titles, Martin can pick whichever one he wants for a unification fight.
Fury seems to want to fight Wilder after the Klitschko fight, so it’s possible that Martin will need to wait a considerable amount of time before he gets a shot at Wilder or Fury. I personally don’t think Fury wants to risk his hide fighting Martin right now. If Fury is going to take a risk, he’s going to take the risk that brings him more money and that obviously is the talented 6’7” Wilder.
“I thought I would box him for a while and then start going at him and whip his butt,” Martin said about Glazkov. “I promise you I could have. That injury saved him. It broke my heart that I didn’t get to do what I wanted.”
With the way that Martin suddenly started attacking Glazkov in the 3rd, I think Martin would have given the smaller Glazkov a real beating and stopped him outright if he hadn’t suffered a knee injury. I think the injury saved Glazkov from taking punishment and it saved him from being exposed in front of the entire world.
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