By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Malik Scott (35-0-1, 12 KO’s) thinks his opponent for Saturday night Dereck Chisora (16-4, 10 KO’s) puts his entire focus on outside of the ring antics rather than what he does once he gets inside of the ring. Scott says his focus on what happens inside of the ring with showing his skills and winning his fights.
Scott said to esnewsreporting, “He’s overmatched though. If you look everything he’s going for is outside of the ring. Everything I’m going for is inside the ring.”
Scott is obviously talking about how Chisora has kissed one of his opponents outside of the ring, slapped WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, spit water in the face of Wladimir Klitschko, and was involved in a brawl with David Haye.
All of this stuff took place outside of the ring except for the spitting water in the face of Wladimir. That took place in the ring last year in February, but Wladimir wasn’t even fighting Chisora, yet he got a face full of water.
Chisora has done a good job of marketing some of these fights with these outside of the ring antics, but it hurt him with the Klitschko affair with him getting suspended shortly afterwards by the British Boxing Board of Control for his behavior with the Klitschkos in addition to the brawl with Haye that took place.
There’s no doubt about it that Chisora has failed inside the ring with losses to Robert Helenius, Vitali, Tyson Fury and David Haye. He seemed to tone his act down quite a bit for the fight with Haye, and that’s kind of understandable given the circumstances of the Klitschko affair.
Chisora has a chance on Saturday night to prove that he’s not all about hyping fights outside of the ring and then going in and losing. If he can beat Scott he’ll prove that he’s still a major player in the heavyweight division, and not just a showman with marketing skills.
If Chisora loses again, then it probably doesn’t matter what he does outside of the ring for his future bouts because I can’t see him getting anyone good after this. I mean, what quality heavyweight would want to fight a guy that has lost 5 out of his last 7 fights. That’s journeyman stuff.
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