Chisora won’t survive long against Vitali on Feb. 18th

By Boxing News - 12/22/2011 - Comments

Image: Chisora won't survive long against Vitali on Feb. 18thBy Scott Gilfoid: Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) is about to take a terrible beating on February 18th against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) at the Olymiahalle in Munich, Germany.

It isn’t even a question about who will win the fight because it’s academic already that the 6’7” Vitali is going to win easily over the much shorter 6’1” Chisora. The only thing you can wonder about is how Vitali is going to win, and even that really isn’t much of a mystery.

He’s going to pound Chisora, rearrange his facial features and get a stoppage by the 8th round at the latest. Chisora may finish on his feet but be saved by the referee, who will likely be forced to step in when Vitali starts really brutalizing Chisora.

We saw Chisora take a lot of punishment from Tyson Fury, who luckily for Chisora, isn’t much more than a slapper. Chisora moves his head a little and seems to try and copy Joe Frazier’s style of head movement.

However, he’s still easy to hit because he’s a pressure fighter and tends to come right at his opponents. Chisora is going to be fighting a lot like Danny Williams did when he came right at Vitali back in 2004. It made Vitali’s job that much easier and he responded by knocking Williams down four times en route to getting an 8th round TKO win.

Chisora is going to get hit with so many shots in this fight and by the 3rd or 4th rounds, all the fight will be out of him. He’ll little more than a punching bag instinctively walking forward but just getting his head torn apart with every punch.

I see Chisora losing his confidence quickly when it dawns on him that he’s walked into a fight he can’t win. Vitali is going to literally bludgeon Chisora into submission with clubbing shots. This isn’t going to be Robert Helenius that Chisora in with.

Obviously, he’s coming into this fight thinking he’s got a Helenius-type of opponent in front of him in Vitali, but he’s going to be in so much pain and such a shock when it registers in his head that he’s not in with a limited fighter like Helenius.

I would hope that Chisora’s trainer does the right thing and throws in the white towel of surrender rather than letting Chisora soak up one way punishment but I doubt that’s going to happen.

Chisora is going to be out there on his own and is going to be battered like no tomorrow. I guess it’s good in a way. By sticking around until the bitter end, Chisora will at least know that he tried as best as he could but he just wasn’t good enough.

I still can’t understand how a champion like Vitali is able to fight a 2nd tier heavyweight like Chisora, who isn’t even ranked in the top 15. There needs to be rules against these kinds of mismatches being made because it’s not good for boxing and not good for fans to watch slaughters like this one is going to be.



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