By Scott Gilfoid: For what it’s worth, 6’8” former world title challenger turned sparring partner Mariusz Wach is picking #1 WBO, #3 IBF, #12 WBA Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) to defeat #4 WBO, #7 IBF, #10 WBC, #14 WBA Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KO’s) in their rematch next month on July 26th at the Phones 4u Arena, in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Wach just got with Chisora yesterday, so it’s kind of hard to understand how he can form any kind of opinion on the Chisora-Fury rematch.
Wach, 34, hasn’t fought since losing to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko two years ago by a 12 round unanimous decision. It’s unclear what the hang-up is for Wach, because he should have returned to the ring last year to resume his boxing career instead of working as a sparring partner. Wach was a punching bag for Wladimir in their fight, and it’s surprising that his corner didn’t pull him out of their because he just soaked up head shots for 12 rounds in losing by a lopsided 12 round decision in a painfully one-sided fight from start to finish.
“Chisora is a very, very, strong fighter, he certainly surprised me with his strength. Even at this stage, with six weeks still left until the fight, he is physically prepared and as strong as bull. Fury is a good boxer with a powerful punch, but he’s going to need something big to keep Chisora off him, Chisora is a high pressure fighter, constantly moving forward looking for openings to land his big punches and when they land they hurt.”
I think Wach is dreaming here. Chisora is going to lose and lose badly to Fury. Chisora can punch hard when he throws his looping shots to the back of the head, but he doesn’t punch with huge power on his shots to the front of his opponent’s heads for some reason. He doesn’t tend to hurt his opponents with those kinds of shots. The shots where Chisora does damage is with his rabbit shots, which in theory shouldn’t be allowed. That’s on the referees that have been working Chisora’s recent fights, because he’s been throwing a lot of rabbit shots in his last five fights since he was flattened in five rounds by David Haye in 2012.
As long as Fury leans backwards to avoid the occasional rabbit punch Chisora throws, he should win very, very easy on July 26th. This will be as easy as the last time he beat Chisora, and I can’t see it being competitive at all.
“If Chisora can start fast, go under Fury’s punches and connect with his big punches then I can’t see Fury standing up for long and he’ll go down.”
Chisora has been looking good against the 3rd tier heavyweights he’s been fighting since his loss to Haye, but we’re talking really weak opposition. Chisora hasn’t been getting them out of their neatly though. It’s been a lot of punches to the back of the head, and I can’t think of any of his past 5 fights where he beat them cleanly without rabbit shots.
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