By Marcus Richardson: British challenger Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO’s) sees himself as the one to rid boxing of WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KO’s) when they meet next month on February 18th.
Chisora is not a fan of either Klitschko brother, especially Wladimir Klitschko, who Chisora was twice scheduled to fight last year but neither fight ever took place because of an abdominal tear Wladimir suffered. Chisora is hoping Vitali doesn’t suffer an injury before he gets to him next month because he believes he’s got what it takes to defeat Vitali and take his World Boxing Council belt.
Chisora said this during Monday’s press conference with Vitali “Physically and mentally, I’m coming to take what’s his. He just has to be prepared to fight because I’m coming for him. Everyone’s bored of him and the whole world is on my side. Him and his brother have killed the sport I love. They may never heard of me in China, but they’ll know all about me there after I’ve whooped his a**.”
Chisora clearly won event during the Monday press conference. He had the better sound bites, seemed like the more confident fighter and even had Vitali backing down from arguing with him. Chisora had the same effect on Wladimir when the two of them took part in press conferences for their failed fights. However, talking isn’t fighting and Chisora is out of his element here in the ring against the big 6’7” Vitali.
Chisora may be able to out-talk Vitali in speaking England, but in the ring this fight looks to be a huge mismatch if not a slaughter in the making. Chisora has already been exposed by big Tyson Fury last year in a one-sided 12 round decision loss, and Vitali is going to make it even more of one-sided fight than Fury did. Chisora fought well in his last fight against highly hyped Robert Helenius in a questionable 12 round split decision loss to him last December in Helenius’s home country of Finland. But Helenius really had never fought anyone that was any good before that.
Helenius’ best opponents were Lamon Brewster, who was at the very end of his career, Samuel Peter and Sergey Liakhovich. Peter didn’t look at all interested in fighting Helenius after having been stopped in the 10th round in his previous fight. Liakhovich game Helenius a lot of trouble and this was an old and incredibly rusty Liakhovich. It’s no wonder then that Chisora would be give Helenius problems with his pressure and inside attack. Helenius showed no ability to move around the ring and just stood there covering up. You couldn’t find a more perfect opponent for Chisora to fight than Helenis, especially with him having an injured right hand.
Vitali will be moving around the ring, jabbing and nailing Chisora with really big shots in this fight. He’s not going to stand and let Chisora tee off on him the way that Helenius did. I have a feeling that Chisora won’t be feeling bored in this fight. What he’ll be feeling is a great deal of pain and probably some embarrassment and shame mixed in when he gets stomped by Vitali fairly early.