By Scott Gilfoid: WBA/WBO International heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) said last night following his ugly 12 round unanimous decision win over Kevin Johnson (29-5-1, 14 KO’s) that he wants to travel to Moscow, Russia for his next fight to take on former WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (26-1, 18 KO’s). If Chisora does actually get this fight then it could mess things up big time for his Summer clash against Tyson Fury. I mean, Povetkin isn’t one of the fodder opponents that Chisora has been picking up wins against recently, and he would have almost every advantage you could think of over Chisora if that fight gets made.
If Chisora wants to get his payday fight against Fury in a WBO heavyweight eliminator bout, as he’s mentioned, then fighting Povetkin is the wrong thing for Chisora to do. First off, the fight won’t be in the UK, and that probably means all those rabbit punches that we’ve been seeing from Chisora in his fights against Kevin Johnson, Malik Scott and Ondrej Pala wouldn’t likely fly over there.
Chisora said “I’ll tell you where I want to go, and that’s Moscow. There’s a big fight in Moscow and that’s the next fight I want to do right now after this fight. Me and Povetkin and I tell Frank to sort it out for the Spring. And for the Summer, me and Tyson will get it on.”
Chisora’s promoter Frank Warren said “We’ll see what happens next week. We’ll sit down first. Let’s see what happens and then we’ll make our decision.”
I can’t see a referee turning a blind eye to Chisora braining Povetkin in the back of the head for 12 rounds without taking off points a plenty and possibly even disqualifying him from the fight. As such, if Chisora is going to be fighting Povetkin in Russia, he’s going to need to straighten out his punches to make sure they hit in the front portion of Povetkin’s head and not around the back. As far as I can tell, Chisora’s shots don’t seem to have the same kind of affect when he’s landing to the front of the head than when he’s hitting them in the back of the head. He Pala out on his feet after nailing him with a couple of rabbit shots, and he dropped Malik Scott with a looping rabbit punch. As you recall, that was the infamous fight where the referee halted the fight at the count of 9 instead of the usual 10.
Chisora didn’t look so hot last night when Johnson was throwing punches back at him. In fact, Chisora looked downright vulnerable each time that Johnson would throw anything back at him. Against Povetkin, Chisora would be getting hit nonstop for 12 rounds, and unless he came up with a plan to stop Povetkin from throwing punches by holding or leaning on him the way that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko did last October, I can see this going really badly for Chisora. Povetkin is nearly unbeatable against short heavyweights like Chisora, and I can see him scoring a stoppage in the same way that David Haye did against Chisora.
Unless the fight with Fury will go ahead regardless of what happens in Chisora’s next fight, my advice is for Chisora to stay far, far away from a guy like Povetkin, because he’s all wrong for him. If Chisora wants to get in another fight before the Fury clash, then he needs to find another fodder opponent like the guys he’s beaten in his last 5 fights. Chisora can beat guys like that, but I don’t see him having nearly the talent to compete with someone that actually has skills and who can fight back like Povetkin. And like I was saying, I don’t see Chisora getting away with throwing rabbit punches in Moscow, Russia without it leading to a disqualification.
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