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Frank Warren goes for Dereck Chisora by KO

By on July 14, 2012

Former WBA heavyweight champion and linear world cruiserweight champion David Haye takes on Dereck Chisora, once the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titlist, at Upton Park tonight to settle their differences once and for all.
 
The meeting follows on from February’s press conference brawl in Munich as the two Londoners bid to erase the memories of that chaotic evening by vying for supremacy in a twelve-round heavyweight attraction.
 
BoxNation are promoting and televising the bill, which has caused a lot of soul searching among U.K. fight figures due to the involvement of the Luxembourg Boxing Federation, who gave licenses to Haye and Chisora despite strong protests from the BBBoC. Ironically, the Board of Control withdrew Chisora’s licence due to the events in Munich, this decision left “Del Boy” free to seek a licence
from another body and opened the door for the LBF’s involvement.
 
Frank Warren, the manager of Chisora, outlined a strong defence of the LBF’s involvement during a recent interview with me, the veteran promoter also provided his final prediction for the fight.
 
“Ticket sales are going extremely 

well,” said Warren during last week’s phone conversation.  “We’re just 
under 30,000 tickets sold.  It is actually going to be a really good 
fight.  I think Dereck Chisora is going to knock David Haye out.”
 
 

Haye, 25-2 (23), has vowed to take Chisora, 15-3 (9), apart and expose the gulf in class between the two in the process.  Certainly, Haye has mixed in better company: he defeated Nikolay Valuev by majority decision to take the title, made a successful defence against John Ruiz, a ninth-round stoppage win, took Audley Harrison apart in three-rounds, and then dropped a wide decision defeat to Wladimir Klitschko in their July 2011 WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO unification bout.

 

 

Chisora’s fans, however, have pointed to Haye’s struggles with the hustling, bustling 

styles of Carl Thompson, “The Cat” stopped Haye in five back in 2004, 
Giacobbe Fragomeni, who cut Haye and posed him problems before losing in 
nine in 2006, and Jean Marc Mormeck, the Frenchman had Haye down in the 
fourth of their WBC and WBA cruiserweight 
title fight before being stopped in seven in 2007.  These struggles are 

tempered by the results of two of those fights, plus Haye displayed the 
form of his life against Mormeck – he hooked with his left to the head 

and body before lowering the right hand to rip the title away in front of the French champion’s Parisian fans.
 
 

Haye, 31, has justified his confidence by pointing to Chisora’s decision defeats to Tyson Fury, when the Finchley-based boxer lost his British and Commonwealth belts, Robert Helenius, a narrow defeat for the EBU belt, and Vitali Klitschko, who easily out-pointed th 28-year-old despite not looking at his best.  Indeed, even those who think that Mormeck and Fragomeni bothered Haye by pressuring him would happily admit that the Bermondsey-born boxer came through rough patches before stopping them both.

Chisora, 

then, has to hope that Haye’s recent inactivity will play a part, not 
to mention the chance that the former world titlist could lose his cool 
due to the mutual animosity between 
the and play into his opponent’s hands.  This is unlikely, despite 
everything, Haye is usually focused and ready come the night and 
Chisora will have to be in the form of his life, plus have a storming 
start, if he is to fulfill his manager’s pre-fight prediction.
 

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Courtesy of Rick Reeno and www.boxingscene.com

About Terry Dooley

Boxing journalist from Manchester

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