By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world title challenger Dereck Chisora (25-5, 17 KOs) continued with his rampage through the journeyman circuit in stoppage a horribly over-matched fighter named Andras Csomor (14-9-1, 12 KOs) by a 2nd round knockout in a scheduled 8 round bout on Saturday night on the undercard of the Vincent Feigenbutz vs. Giovanni De Carolis card at the Baden-Arena in Offenburg, Germany. To say this was a mismatch would be kind. Chisora landed a short right hand to the head of Csomor while the two of them were in close. The shot staggered Csomor, causing him to move backwards on weak legs. The referee then jumped in between the two fighters quickly and halted the fight before Chisora could nail the badly hurt Csomor with additional shots.
In the 1st round, Chisora and Csomor traded shots for the full three minutes of the round. Chisora landed a couple of nice looping right hands that got Csomor’s attention. Near the end of the round, Csomor nailed Chisora with a left-right combination that landed cleanly. If it had been a stronger heavyweight with more size throwing those punches, then I think Chisora would have been in trouble.
Chisora was the more aggressive of the two, and he appeared to have a decent size advantage despite Csomor being the same height. My guess is Chisora outweighed Csomor by a good 35 pounds in the ring. It makes sense, as Csomor weighed in at only 220lbs at the weigh-in last Friday compared to Chisora’s 253lbs. There was no way that Csomor was going to be able to deal with Chisora’s tremendous weight advantage to get the victory. Of course, Csomor was never meant to be a competitive opponent in the first place.
The victory may get Chisora a fight against either British/Commonwealth heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua or EBU champion Robert Helenius next. It depends on whether Chisora’s promoters at Sauerland Events can get him one of those guys.
Chisora would likely make more money fighting Joshua, but it’s not certain that Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn will choose to put him in with Chisora. There’s no upside in fighting Chisora, because he’s already been whipped twice by Tyson Fury and Joshua wouldn’t get much credit for doing what has already been done before in beating Chisora too.
Chisora, 32, is becoming something of a journeyman wrecker, as he’s beating them left and right since his 10th round stoppage loss to Fury in November 2014. Since that loss, Chisora has beaten five journeyman opponents, many of them with names that are difficult for me to pronounce. I can’t say I’ve ever of any of them, and it’s kind of troubling how far back Chisora has been pushed by his promoters in terms of the awful opposition he’s been facing lately. It’s like he’s been brought all the way back to the novice stage with the kind of opponents he’s been facing.
Here are Chisora’s last five opponents:
Andras Csomor
Jakov Gospic
Peter Erdos
Marcelo Luiz Nascimento
Beka Lobjanidze
I don’t see Joshua getting any credit if he fights Chisora at this point. I mean, Chisora is doing zero to rebuild his career by facing quality fighters. As such, why should Joshua burn up one of his fights in his career fighting a guy that is doing little more than padding his record with fluff opponents the way Chisora is.
I wouldn’t blame Joshua if he never fights Chisora, because there’s no way you can build a fight like that right now. If Chisora would actually take on and beat a decent fringe level heavyweight contender like Kubrat Pulev, then I could see the logic in Joshua fighting Chisora. But right now it would be like rewarding Chisora for fighting fodder opposition by giving him a fight and a payday. I’m just wondering what’s the end game with Sauerland Events with their mismatches they’re putting Chisora in. At some point they’ve got to stop bank rolling Chisora’s mismatches and see if he can fly on his own against a good opponent. If he can’t, then they need to cut their losses and focus on trying to sign some quality heavyweights that have a future.
I honestly don’t know where Chisora goes from here. If he gets matched up with Helenius, I see him getting beaten badly by a 100 percent healthy Helenius. I know Chisora lost a controversial decision to an injured one-armed Helenius in 2011. But there’s no way I can see Chisora beating a healthy Helenius. It would be a worst mismatch than the two Chisora vs. Fury fights.
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