Fury: No other heavyweight could box Chisora like that

By Boxing News - 11/30/2014 - Comments

fury55By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (23-0, 17 KOs) feels that no other heavyweight in the division could have out-boxed the over-matched Dereck Chisora (20-5, 13 KOs) the way that he did last night in stopping him in the 10th round. Fury pretty much pitched a shutout in making Chisora look really bad before his trainer opted to pull the plug on the fight after the 10th.

It was a case of Chisora being too short, too limited and perhaps too over-trained last night. I’m not sure that Fury did anything special in out-boxing Chisora last night, because as awful as Chisora looked in that fight, I think a good many heavyweights in the division would have done the same thing to him.

You have to remember that Chisora had won his five previous fights against little more than fluff opponents since being dismembered by David Haye in five rounds in 2012. That was the last time that Chisora had fought a decent heavyweight.

His five fights since that time had come against god awful opposition, and several of his wins were questionable in my view given the rabbit punches he landed in those fights.

“I don’t think another heavyweight could box him like that,” Fury said via ESPN.com. “Dereck Chisora would give any other heavyweight a hard fight. I didn’t even really take many blows. I’m very proud of my performance.”

I totally disagree with Fury. The way Chisora looked last night, I think he would have been clowned by Kubrat Pulev, Bryant Jennings, Alexander Povetkin, Deontay Wilder, Mike Perez, Tony Thompson, Lucas Browne, Andy Ruiz, Vyacheslav Glazkov, Carlos Takam, Alexander Ustinov, Chris Arreloa, Tomas Adamek, Luis Ortiz, Joseph Parker, and David Price. All Fury proved last night is that he can beat a guy that would have been dismantled pretty much by 16 other heavyweight contenders.

I don’t think Fury proved anything in beating Chisora. All he proved is that he can beat a guy with an inflated resume, because Chisora hasn’t beaten anyone good ever during his career. Since his loss to David Haye in 2012, Chisora has beaten the following heavyweights: Kevin Johnson, Ondrej Pala, Edmund Gerber, Malik Scott, and Hector Alfredo Avila.

I’m sorry, but I don’t rate any of those guys as being good heavyweights, and I’m not surprised that Chisora was able to beat them. It’s kind of own the World Boxing Organization for giving Chisora such a high ranking [#1 WBO] based on his wins over fluff opponents, because they should have waited until Chisora fought a halfway decent heavyweight before they ranked him in the top 10. As such, we saw Chisora beat a handful or poor heavyweights, and then get a high ranking off of the wins. When he finally had to face a decent guy in Fury, we saw the results. It was just like the first fight between them in 2011, only Chisora looked even worse than he did back then.



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