By Scott Gilfoid: 12 WBO, 13 WBC, 13 IBF fringe contender Dereck Chisora (25-5, 17 KOs) believes that fellow Brit Anthony Joshua (15-0, 15 KOs) will defeat IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) by a knockout in their fight on April 9 on Sky Box Office at the O2 Arena in London, UK.
Chisora, 32, thinks that Martin will attempt to box Joshua in the first quarter of the fight in order to take him into the deeper waters, where he hopes to drown him. Chisora doesn’t think that’s going to work for Martin, as he sees the 6’6” Joshua knocking him out anytime he pleases.
Chisora also thinks that Joshua will want to fight him. I’m not sure why though, because Chisora appears to be heading towards journeyman status, especially after he loses to former world title challenger Kubrat Pulev in their fight for the vacant EBU heavyweight title.
After Chisora loses that fight, there really won’t be any point in Joshua ever fighting him. I mean, where’s the gain in fighting a guy that keeps getting beaten over and over again?
“I know what his [Martin] game-plan is – he’s going to try and box AJ the first two to four rounds and try and take it to the deep end, which might be harder for AJ. But AJ has got the first two rounds and he’ll knock him out if he wants to,” Chisora said to skysports.com.”Yes, he’s going to win it by knockout I think.”
You did read the part where Chisora said “I think,” didn’t you? The fact of the matter is Chisora doesn’t know who will win the Joshua vs. Martin fight. If he did know for sure, he could bet everything on the outcome of the fight and sit pretty without ever having to fight again. Judging by how dreadfully awful Joshua looked in his last fight against an injured Dillian Whyte, I would have to say that Joshua will lose to Martin on April 9. Joshua was gasping for air after just the 2nd round, and that’s not a good sign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beG_embOp6E
The southpaw Martin is going to definitely take Joshua past the fourth, and he’s not going to try and box him the way that Chisora thinks. I see Martin pushing a really fast pace in order to take advantage of all those useless muscles that Joshua has on his frame so that he can tire him out. When a fighter has a lot of useless flesh on their frame, be it muscle or fat, it forces their cardiovascular system to work overtime to pump blood to all of that tissue.
Joshua hasn’t had to put a great strain on his heart in his previous fights because he’s still fighting amateur length fights due to the poor opposition that his promoter Eddie Hearn has been putting in the ring with him. However, once Joshua is forced to go past the fourth round at a fast pace against Martin, I see Joshua floundering like a fish out of water, gasping for air and panicking big time.
“It’s always going to be there,” Chisora said about an eventual fight against Joshua. “When he wins, he’s going to ask to fight me or David Haye. But it has to be on great terms for both parties.”
So in other words, Chisora wants nice cut of the loot when eventually does get a fight against Joshua. Oh my, I think Chisora is really starting to sound deluded. The guy gets stopped by Tyson Fury in the 10th round in 2014, and he then beats five fodder opponents that I’ve never even heard of in my life.
The next thing you know it, Chisora is talking about how he thinks the Joshua fight will be there for him in the future. I don’t see why Joshua would waste his time by jamming his career into reverse by fighting Chisora. That seems like a self-defeating move if you ask me.
Look at the guys that Chisora has beaten in his last five fights:
Andras Csomor
Jarkov Gospic
Peter Erdos
Marcelo Luiz Nascimento
Beka Lobjanidze
Do those guys look like good enough fighters for you to say that Chisora has turned his career around since his loss to Tyson Fury in 2014? Heck no. I think Chisora has just cheated himself out of a year and half of his career by fighting those poor opponents. If it were me, I would have fought one of them and then immediately started fighting top contenders rather than wasting a year and a half of my career fighting cannon fodder type opponents.
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