Chisora the best pressure fighter Vitali has faced since Corrie Sanders

By Boxing News - 12/23/2011 - Comments

Image: Chisora the best pressure fighter Vitali has faced since Corrie SandersBy Sean McDaniel: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) will be dealing with the best pressure fighter he’s faced in many years when he defends his title against the hard hitting Joe Frazier-like Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) on February 18th at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany.

Chisora is easily best pressure fighter that Vitali has come across since he struggled to beat the powerful southpaw South African Corrie Sanders in 2004.

For newer boxing fans they’ve like never heard of the 6’4” Sanders but for both the Klitschkos and for older boxing fans, Sanders is very well known. He destroyed Wladimir Klitschko in the 2nd round in March 2003, and Wladimir never did fight Sanders again after the one-sided destruction.

It was Vitali who avenge the defeat a year later by stopping Sanders in the 8th round. But Sanders had Vitali hurt in the 1st round and really battered Vitali for at least five rounds before Sander’s poor conditioning caught up to him and he ran out of gas.

Chisora is the same kind of pressure fighter as Sanders, but not as powerful, tall nor as quick. But Chisora hits plenty hard and he could end up giving Vitali all kinds of problems in this fight if he stays on the big Ukrainian and doesn’t let him get away.

Vitali likes to back away from pressure while at the same time throwing power shots. Chisora must follow him closely and not let Vitali keep the fight at a distance. The way to beat Vitali is the way that both Sanders and Chris Byrd were doing in their fights against him.

They both pressured Vitali and forced him to work harder than he wanted. In Sander’s case, he didn’t have the stamina to finish the job, but he was still snapping Vitali’s head back with monstrous shots as late as the 5th round. If Chisora can keep the pressure into the second half of the fight we could see a new champion get crowned on February 18th.



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