Tyson Fury batters Derek Chisora for 10th-round TKO win to defend WBC title
Tyson Fury (L) and Derek Chisora (R) exchange punches during their WBC heavyweight championship fight. Photo / Getty
Tyson Fury easily retained his WBC heavyweight belt by stopping Derek Chisora again thanks to his overwhelming advantage of reach and height this morning (NZT).
Referee Victor Loughlin didn’t end the one-sided all-British fight until 10 seconds remained in the 10th round.
It could have finished five rounds sooner and nobody could have complained. Not least Chisora, who could hardly see out of his right eye after seven rounds.
”I felt good, I needed some rounds, I haven’t boxed since April,” Fury said.
“I was landing good punches. What a tough man (Chisora is). I hit him with shots that would have sparked anyone else out.”
Chisora thanked Loughlin for stopping the bout.
Chisora was game and made good starts in the early going with a couple of flush rights to Fury’s face in different rounds. But Fury shrugged them off and inevitably took control with his jab.
The challenger, facing Fury for a third time, couldn’t stop the jab thanks to Fury’s reach advantage of more than 28 centimeters from a height advantage of 18 centimeters.
Fury made a mockery of his control by showboating from early on when he looked like he could end the bout at any time at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
He improved his record to 33-0-1 with his 24th knockout. He has given Chisora his first (2011), fifth (2014) and 13th losses, all of them comfortably.
Fury’s third successful defense of the WBC belt he won from Deontay Wilder in 2020 was watched from ringside by the unbeaten Oleksandr Usyk, holder of the WBA, IBF and WBO titles. They faced off in the ring after the bout and Usyk met Fury’s insults with a smirk.
Their promoters failed this year to reach an agreement on a fight for the undisputed title.
Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora pledged “to go to war” in their trilogy fight at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of an audience of 60,000.
“The haters are going to hate but don’t criticise this fight because we are going to throw our hands when the bell goes,” insisted Fury, the undefeated World Boxing Council heavyweight champion.
“I’m going to box his head off. I’m feeling good, I’m feeling on fire. I’m looking to get him out of there, I’m looking for a fourth clean knockout in a row. Whether it will be quick or not, it will last as long as Derek wants.”
There is no old pals act, added Chisora, 38, who was beaten by Fury in 2011 and 2014.
“We want to give the fans a good fight so we figured out that once the ref reads out the instructions, we’re not going to go back to our corners, we’re just going to stand there and let it go from there,” said Chisora.
“Let me tell you, that man there and me, we love to fight,” explained Chisora. “We shook on it [to go at it from the first bell] traveller style. We didn’t bet on it, we just said we would stay in the middle and get on with it. We will go when the first bell goes, no walking back. There are going to be fireworks in there.
“We’re in the business of fighting. We’re not in the business of robbing the public of their money. After all is said and done, we will break bread together. But for however long the fight goes for, we’re going to go to war.
“There is enough bad stuff happening in the world, so this needs to be exciting. We don’t listen to our teams, we do what we want to make ourselves happy.
“If I listened to people,” said Chisora, “I’d be retired by now.”
Telegraph Sport understands that Oleksandr Usyk, the Ukrainian heavyweight who holds the three other major world title belts, will be ringside. Fury and Usyk are set to meet for the undisputed title in the first quarter of 2023, potentially in the Middle East.
“Usyk means nothing to me at this moment,” said Fury. “Usyk is not on my radar, Chisora is and winning against him.”
Fury has an 18cm height advantage on Chisora, a reach advantage of more than 28cm, and will be 3kg heavier.
Fury weighed in at 122kg, about seven more than he was against Dillian Whyte, and Chisora was 119kg - his heaviest in five years.
- Telegraph Sport
How to watch
Fury v Chisora III will be live via pay-per-view on Sky Arena and Sky Sport Now from 7am on Sunday morning. The main event is expected to get underway around 10am. The Herald will be providing live updates of the main event at nzherald.co.nz.
Tale of the tape: Fury | Chisora
Record: 32-0-1 | 33-12-0
Height: 206cm | 188cm
Reach: 216cm | 188cm
TAB Odds
Fury $1.02 Chisora $13 Draw $36
Full card
Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora - heavyweight
Daniel Dubois vs Kevin Lerena – heavyweight
Yvan Mendy vs Denys Berinchyk – lightweight
Karol Itauma vs Vladimir Belujsky – light-heavyweight
Hosea Burton vs Reinis Porozovs – cruiserweight
Isaac Lowe vs Sandeep Singh Bhatti – super-featherweight
Royston Barney Smith vs Cruz Perez – lightweight
