ROBERT MORALES on BOXING: Slap-happy Chisora stirs it up with Klitschko at weigh-in - LA Daily News
When someone like Dereck Chisora slaps a champion like Vitali Klitschko across the face at a weigh-in, one has to wonder if it was staged to bring more attention to what appears to be a one-sided fight.
Chisora is just 15-2 with nine knockouts. He has lost two of his past three bouts - to Tyson Fury and Robert Helenius - via decision and yet the World Boxing Council has him ranked in the top 15 in the heavyweight division. That allows Chisora to challenge Klitschko for his WBC belt, even though he hasn't earned it.
After Friday's weigh-in, the two engaged in the obligatory stare down, at which time Chisora smacked Klitschko. According to The Associated Press, Klitschko did not retaliate but the respective camps were pulled apart.
"I am going to hit back on Saturday," Klitschko told the AP. "He will get his beating."
In that same AP report, Klitschko said, "I'm really looking forward to teaching this young gentleman a lesson. He is from Great Britain, but he's lacking appropriate manners."
"Don't underestimate Chisora," said Klitschko, 40. "He's young, very aggressive, he's very hungry and he wants to be world champion very much. I was very impressed when I saw his last fight against Robert Helenius. Chisora may have lost the decision, but many experts who saw the fight saw Chisora dominate the fight."
The facts don't support Klitschko's comments. Sandwiched between the losses to Fury and Helenius, all Chisora could manage against Remegijus Ziausys last November was a six-round decision. Ziausys entered with a record of 19-43-3.
Furthermore, all but one of Chisora's bouts have come in the United Kingdom - 13 of them in his native London. And except for Fury and Helenius, both of whom are barely known in the U.S., Chisora has been duking it out with a bunch of no-names.
In Germany, where the Klitschkos are huge, they can sell out just about any arena regardless of the opponent. But Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KOs), of Ukraine, doesn't want to hear about how much the heavyweight division stinks.
REMEMBER WHEN ALI SQUARED OFF WITH WILT CHAMBERLAIN?
When someone like Dereck Chisora slaps a champion like Vitali Klitschko across the face at a weigh-in, one has to wonder if it was staged to bring more attention to what appears to be a one-sided fight.
Chisora is just 15-2 with nine knockouts. He has lost two of his past three bouts - to Tyson Fury and Robert Helenius - via decision and yet the World Boxing Council has him ranked in the top 15 in the heavyweight division. That allows Chisora to challenge Klitschko for his WBC belt, even though he hasn't earned it.
After Friday's weigh-in, the two engaged in the obligatory stare down, at which time Chisora smacked Klitschko. According to The Associated Press, Klitschko did not retaliate but the respective camps were pulled apart.
"I am going to hit back on Saturday," Klitschko told the AP. "He will get his beating."
In that same AP report, Klitschko said, "I'm really looking forward to teaching this young gentleman a lesson. He is from Great Britain, but he's lacking appropriate manners."
"Don't underestimate Chisora," said Klitschko, 40. "He's young, very aggressive, he's very hungry and he wants to be world champion very much. I was very impressed when I saw his last fight against Robert Helenius. Chisora may have lost the decision, but many experts who saw the fight saw Chisora dominate the fight."
The facts don't support Klitschko's comments. Sandwiched between the losses to Fury and Helenius, all Chisora could manage against Remegijus Ziausys last November was a six-round decision. Ziausys entered with a record of 19-43-3.
Furthermore, all but one of Chisora's bouts have come in the United Kingdom - 13 of them in his native London. And except for Fury and Helenius, both of whom are barely known in the U.S., Chisora has been duking it out with a bunch of no-names.
In Germany, where the Klitschkos are huge, they can sell out just about any arena regardless of the opponent. But Vitali Klitschko (43-2, 40 KOs), of Ukraine, doesn't want to hear about how much the heavyweight division stinks.
REMEMBER WHEN ALI SQUARED OFF WITH WILT CHAMBERLAIN?
This guy, Chisora has no business being called a legitimate challenger but thanks to the magic of Ratings Manipulation he is called the man of the hour. He loses two out of three of his last fights and barely beats what is called a canvas-back-journeyman fighter. The kind of fighter that the Properties like Chisora are spoon-fed by their promoters in order to build a record sufficient to "fool" the paying public. Only the Klitschko 'mystique' could sell a "stinker" like this one.
When will boxing governing bodies accept that we need to creaate a new division called Super Heavyweight to accommodate the huge size differences between men competing as Heavyweights?
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