Chisora battles Fury in WBO eliminator on July 26th

By Boxing News - 03/17/2014 - Comments

chisora22By Scott Gilfoid: In a rematch that really makes little sense other than the money that can be made from it, #2 WBO, #7 WBA, #7 IBF, Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) will battle #7 WBO, #8 WBC, Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KO’s) on July 26th in a WBO heavyweight eliminator bout at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

The fight is understandable given the money it can make in the UK, but what’s interesting is how the World Boxing Organization is making it a WBO eliminator with the winner to become the WBO mandatory challenger to champion Wladimir Klitschko. That doesn’t make sense to me, because there are higher ranked fighters than Fury by the WBO, such as #3 Andy Ruiz, #4 Deontay Wilder and #6 Christian Hammer.

It seems to me that if Chisora is going to be fighting in a heavyweight eliminator for the WBO, he should be fighting one of those guys instead of a guy that beat him already just three years ago in 2011. Fury easily beat Chisora by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision in July of 2011. That right there tells me that there doesn’t need to be a reach.

Can you imagine Wladimir fighting a rematch against someone he easily beat like Marius Wach? Yeah, I think it would sell in Germany, but then again all of Wladimir’s fights sell there. They could trot out the worst possible contender and the fans would likely happily scoop up tickets and think it’s a great fight. So, yeah, I don’t like the idea of Fury and Chisora fighting at all again, period, and I especially don’t like the idea of this being a WBO eliminator bout when there are higher ranked contenders than Fury.

Chisora and Fury will also be fighting for the vacant BBBofC British heavyweight title. Having that crown on the line makes sense, because their fight is really a domestic level clash at best in my view.

The outcome is going to be the same as last time. Chisora is too short and too dependent on getting close enough to land his looping shots, which frequently wind up hitting his opponents in the back of the head. That kind of fighting style works well against fighters 6’4” and shorter, but it won’t work against a tall fighter like the 6’9” Fury.

Chisora’s punches don’t seem to have a lot of power on them when they come to the front of the head, and he’s not going to be able to hit Fury on the back of the head with the looping shots unless Fury turns his back to him intentionally, which I don’t think he’s going to do. As such, Chisora will be stuck on the outside all night long eating jabs and right hands, and getting nailed with body shots.

Chisora doesn’t handle body shots too well, and I suspect Fury will take the gas out of him by the 5th round by aiming his punches down there. We’ll end up seeing Fury winning another lopsided 12 round decision, and people will wonder why the rematch was even necessary.



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