Chisora appeals license withdrawal; his promoter wants Haye fight

By Boxing News - 03/29/2012 - Comments

Image: Chisora appeals license withdrawal; his promoter wants Haye fightBy William Mackay: Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (15-3, 9 KO’s) has appealed his license withdrawal to the British Boxing Board of Control, hoping he can get his boxing license back so that he can resume his sagging career. Chisora has lost three out of his last four fights and seems to be going nowhere fast on the world heavyweight scene.

Frank Warren, the promoter for Chisora, said to The Mail “The appeal has gone in already. The grounds for the appeal are that we’re not satisfied with the way the hearing went. There was no chance to review any evidence at the hearing. All I want is a fair hearing.”

Who knows what will happen with the appeal but I wouldn’t bet that Chisora is given back his backing boxing license anytime soon. Chisora acted erratically in the week of the fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko last February, slapping Vitali for seemingly no reason at the weigh-in the day before the fight, and then spitting water in the face of Wladimir Klitschko in the ring on the night of the fight, and then after the bout getting involved with a post fight brawl with David Haye.

It may not have been Chisora who actually started the physical altercation with Haye, but Chisora definitely said he was going to slap Haye and then he walked up to him to confront him. Given the earlier threat, it came to no surprise that Haye decided to get in the first shot rather than wait around to see what happens. Chisora should have stayed in his seat during the press conference and not walked up on Haye. After the brawl, Chisora made things worse for himself by saying he wanted to burn and shoot Haye due to Haye allegedly hitting him with a bottle when he punched him.

Warren is hoping he can put together a fight between Haye and Chisora in the ring, despite Haye already having said multiple times that he wants nothing to do with Chisora due to him having lost at the domestic level, European level and the world level. Haye has no interest whatsoever in that fight.

Warren said “[a fight between Haye and Chisora] Bigger than either of them fighting Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko. It’s a natural fight, it doesn’t matter what everyone says. There’s a lot for them to fight about…I do see the fight happening. It’s the proper forum for them to settle their differences.”

I don’t think it’s going to happen for a couple of reasons. Chisora has lost all those fights and that’s not appealing for Haye to fight someone that has been beaten so many times in such a short period. Additionally, Chisora showed himself to be unpredictable before and after the Vitali fight, as well as before and during some of his other fights with Chisora slapping, spitting, kissing and even biting opponents. I don’t think Haye wants to be walking on egg shells around Chisora, not knowing if he’s going to get kissed, slapped, bit or whatever Chisora can think of to try rile Haye and get the boxing public interested in the fight. But besides that, Chisora made the threat about wanting to shoot and burn Haye and my guess is Haye won’t want to be around someone that made threats like that and has sometimes had a problem controlling his behavior.



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