Lewis: Chisora is too inexperienced for Vitali; this is a mismatch

By Boxing News - 02/16/2012 - Comments

Image: Lewis: Chisora is too inexperienced for Vitali; this is a mismatchBy Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis seems to have changed his tune about Saturday’s fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and his overmatched British challenger Dereck Chisora. Perhaps Lewis read my column and changed his mind about who he thinks will win the fight, because he previously giving Chisora a shot at beating Vitali.

It doesn’t look like Lewis is giving the 28-year-old Chisora any chance of winning now judging by his comments on twitter.

Lewis said this on his twitter today about the Vitali-Chisora fight on Saturday: “Chisora-Klitschko is for all intents and purposes a mismatch. In my era, you couldn’t have a world title fight 17 fight into your career. [Chisora is] Too green. At this stage it seems Chisora should be fighting for a European belt. I my opinion, he’s still a bit too green for the Klitschkos.”

Yeah, it does seen like Vitali has picked Chisora too early in his career before he’s ready. However, Chisora already lost his domestic level British and Commonwealth heavyweight straps to Tyson Fury, and how can Chisora go to an higher belt like the EBU? Chisora already lost to the EBU #1 contender Robert Helenius in his last fight, so you can’t even say Chisora should go after that title because he’s been weeded out already. And for Vitali to pick Chisora off of a loss to Fury, that just doesn’t right. It doesn’t make sense to me. Chisora has lost two out of his last three fights and he’s being given a title shot. We’re talking about digging from the bottom of the barrel here.

I don’t see this as a situation where Chisora is too green. Rather, I see him as being too short, too slow, too weak and too limited. You can give Chisora three to five more years of development and he’s going to be still short, slow and too weak to beat the Klitschkos. This is about basic talent and Chisora just doesn’t have enough it doesn’t matter about having too limited experience. His lack of talent is his real problem. If he made some skills along with physical tools like hand speed, power and size, he’d be a real threat to Vitali on Saturday. But he doesn’t have those things, so he’s going to lose and lose badly.



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