By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (17-4, 11 KO’s) is hoping to get ranked high enough to get a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko if Chisora can beat undefeated Russian #1 WBO, #3 WBA, Denis Boytsov (33-0, 26 KO’s) next month in their fight on September 21st at the Copper Box Arena, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom.
Chisora and Boytsov will be fighting for the EBU heavyweight title.
Chisora thinks that a win over Boytsov will allow him to skip over the other heavyweight contenders like Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) to get a title shot against Wladimir in 2014. I’m not sure if Chisora is seeing things clearly.
A win over Boytsov will just mean that he beat a rusty heavyweight who never fought anyone good before. Wladimir will likely not volunteer to fight Chisora on his own. I don’t see that happening. It’s not that Wladimir is afraid of fighting Chisora; it’s just that he obviously wasn’t happy with how Chisora conducted himself in the lead up to his fight against Wladimir’s brother Vitali Klitschko last year, and Wladimir isn’t going to do Chisora any favors by rewarding his bad behavior during the run up and aftermath of that fight by letting Chisora get another title shot.
This is a fight that I would have given Chisora absolutely no chance to win had it taken place 2 years ago when Boytsov was still looking good, but he’s not looked good in his last two fights against Samir Kurtagic and Oleksandr Nesterenko. Boytsov looks like he’s aged, and put on weight in the form of fat on his frame.
I can see Chisora getting beaten up in this fight if Boytsov comes into the fight in shape, but he’s going to have to look a lot better than he did in his last two fights because Boytsov looked like a flabby fighter in mid-30s. He didn’t look youthful anymore, and was a lot slower than he was before. The power was still there, but he wasn’t throwing a lot of combinations like he had in his fights before 2010.
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