Is Wladimir joking about Chisora?

By Boxing News - 09/25/2010 - Comments

Image: Is Wladimir joking about Chisora?By Mark Hepplestall: Firstly I am a big fan of Wladimir Klitschko yet I cannot understand his choice in opponents over the last few years. The latest rumors include the Derek Chisora who is the British and Commonwealth champion, beating Danny Williams for the British title; Williams had a losing of 3 losses out of his last 6 and one very suspect point’s victory against John McDermott. Chisora then beat Sam Sexton who he had beat before by TKO in the 6th. Sexton’s best wins were against taxi driver Martin Rogan and one of those were very controversial.

The level of competition that Derek Chisora is fighting is not World level and not even European level, before even thinking about world level he has to beat the rest of the British Prospects such as Tyson Fury, David Price, Larry Olubamiwo, Tom Dallas and Richard Towers. It’s annoying because Chisora hasn’t even been tested against the likes of Matt Skelton and Michael Sprott who would be good stepping stone opponents for Chisora to move to European level. More recently Alexander Povetkin pulled out of a fight with Wladimir Klitschko because he was not ready for the fight, Povetkin is an Olympic Gold Medalist who sports an undefeated 19 fight record, Chisora was a good amateur yet never represented his country at European or World level and sports a 14 fight record against lesser opponents then Povetkin’s opponents, any fight between these two would be a victory for Alexander Povetkin right now and shows that Derek Chisora is not ready for a World Title fight .

So what will Chisora gain from a fight with Wladimir Klitschko? Well firstly he will get a 1-2 million in his back pocket and some world level experience, the taste of a defeat may seriously hurt his confidence or may Chisora train harder to never taste defeat again. Unfortunately the negatives to taking the fight would include that Chisora could get seriously hurt like Sam Peter almost did, he may never get another shot at Wladimir again if he loses and if he loses he has to start from scratch at British level again and fight the British prospects who will know he is very beatable.

So why does Wladimir want to fight an opponent that has almost no chance of winning and unlike Sam Peter not even a punchers chance of winning. Looking at Wladimir’s past 6 fight record his opponent’s chances are regressing, starting with his career defining fight against Sultan Ibragimov for the IBF, IBO and WBO world titles which was a good fight yet one sided, next was Tony Thompson who was 38 and never won a round against Wladimir, after this was Hasim Rahman who tried to survive and didn’t make it past round 7. Next was a good opponent in Ruslan Chagaev who was David Haye’s replacement and other then Sultan Ibragimov is the best name on Wladimir’s record. Next was a mandatory regression against fat, oops “fast” Eddie Chambers, were Chambers also tried to survive and hardly threw a punch all fight only to get KO’d in the final round. Then the mismatch of the century occurred with Wladimir fighting Samuel Peter for the second time and unlike the hype of Peter’s KO chances he lost every round without getting close to Wladimir’s chin and got Violently KO’d in round 10 with all doctors and referee’s failing to save Peter from round 6 onwards from the inevitable KO. That record suggests there is nobody to fight and that all the opponents apart from Chagaev are getting consistently worse, I propose that a fight with Chisora will continue that trend.

Other then becoming an international laughing stock why else could Wladimir want this fight? Well if you watched the entrance to the Wladimir Vs Peter II fight you can notice that Wladimir is making comparisons between himself and Mohammed Ali and everybody know Ali fought Leon Spinks who was a novice of the sport just like Chisora, yet Chisora is never going to repeat history.

Second point would be that Wladimir wants to be a part of the “London Championship”, so how else to make an impact in the UK if he cannot get Haye in the ring other then destroying the British Champion.

Wladimir does however have better options the Chisora and could pursue fights against Tomasz Adamek, Denis Boytsov, Francesco Pianeta, Oleh Platov, Timur Ibragimov or even Evander Holyfield which all would be more competitive then a fight against Derek Chisora.

The fight between Wladimir and Chisora would go as follows. Chisora would get into the ring noticing the size difference and by the end of round 1 would notice the class difference and like all other opponents who notice this will try and survive for all 12 rounds which against a huge heavyweight with speed and power to spare is basically suicide. After being pummelled by the jab from Wladimir for 4 rounds (if it even last that long) Chisora will find himself trapped in the corner with Wladimir doubling on the jab and throwing a hook were the referee will step in and stop the fight to save him from the same treatment that Sam Peter got.



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