By Sean McDaniel: [Photo credit: KMG/Dmitriy Abramov) For a challenger with as little experience as unbeaten Dereck Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) has he sure is one of the most confident fighters that you’ll ever run into. Chisora, who is outgunned in almost every category in his fight against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) is their fight for this Saturday night in Germany, speaks as if he’s the champion and Wladimir is nothing more than a mere challenger. And while some fighters are good at faking confidence, Chisora seems to really believe that he’s going to go out and run over Klitschko on Saturday.

It’s really kind of amusing but very sad at the same time, because that kind of confidence coming from someone who seems very limited doesn’t appear to be healthy. A fighter has got to at least know when they’re up against someone that has the tools to take their head off at the shoulders, and it just doesn’t look like Chisora has much respect for Wladimir’s talent.

In the press conference today, Chisora said this about Wladimir: “I have the power and I am young, so I will take Klitschko into a real fight. Klitschko is 34-years-old, slow and on the downside of his career. I am 26-years-old, very fast and at the peak of my career.”

I think Chisora is a little confused about which Klitschko brother he’s facing. Vitali Klitschko is the slow one and the one that’s getting up there in age, whereas Wladimir is still very fast and young for 34. He’s got fast hand speed, and I would rate him a lot faster than Chisora in that department. Chisora isn’t actually very fast at all. He’s not slow but I wouldn’t call him a fighter with fast hand speed. Chisora probably isn’t at the peak of his career right now. I think he’s selling himself short in that area because I believe he can get better in the next three to four years if he starts facing better opposition than the domestic fodder that he’s been feasting on during his career.

The only way he can improve is if they start putting him in with world class opposition instead of putting him back in with only British heavyweight after Saturday’s bout.

Chisora looked vulnerable in his last fight against Sam Sexton in September and struggled for much of the fight until solving the Sexton puzzle in the second part of the fight and taking him out in the 9th. Chisora won’t be able to rush up to Wladimir the way that he did with Sexton without getting hit with some mammoth shots. Chisora is going to be getting hit with powerful jabs while he’s on the outside and will need to try and get in close somehow.