Can Del make Vitali look like a plonker?

Saturday night in Munich, Dereck Chisora (15-2, 9 KO's) finally gets his chance to fight one of the Klitschko's, as he takes on Vitali (43-2, 40 KO's) for the WBC heavyweight title.

Chisora finally gets his chance to fight a Klitschko

The odds are stacked against "Del Boy", who twice last year missed out on fights with the younger Klitschko, Wladimir. At the time there was a lot of talk that the Klitschko camp were really scared of Chisora, and it's no surprise that one of them does take their chance against him now, this after he suffered two defeats. In the first of those defeats he just didn't train for Tyson Fury and got beat quite comfortable on points. However last time out in Finland against leading heavyweight hope Robert Helenius, Chisora was quite brilliant and in no doubt was robbed by the judges. 

The two fighters who headline the bill in Munich

The worry is that Chisora put so much into that fight, but still couldn't get a decision, he will need to be so much better to win this weekend and that means the odds are firmly stacked against him. I think he's in great shape going into this fight, and that is key to Del's chances in any fight, but we are talking about facing the creme de la creme here, he's said it himself and I think he knows what he's coming up against.

Chisora was in good form at the open workout

In the buildup to the fight he has said and constantly said that he's going to win in the 8th round, and credit has to go to him for being quite brave in his predictions, but you shouldn't really take much notice of what fighters say in the buildup to their fights, all the talking should be done in the ring.


We all know how strong Vitali is, the guy along with his brother has one of the best jabs in Boxing, and what's even more evident about Vital is that he's a real big puncher. He destroyed Tomasz Adamek in his last fight, stopping the brave Pole in ten rounds, but Adamek was so small compared to him, the guy was a great cruiserweight, however he just isnt a good enough heavyweight to beat the Klitschko's.

Vitali has looked focused in the buildup

There is a lot of talk that Vitali doesn't concentrate too much on Boxing anymore, he's a lot more focused on Politics, very much like Pacquiao, but it doesn't really seem to affect him. People do write the brothers off and some of Vitali's recent fights e.g. Shannon Briggs, Odlanier Solis, have been very disappointing, but I was really impressed with him v Adamek and it's a case of write these guys off at your peril.


I would love to see Del Boy doing the pretty much impossible, he will go over there and have a real go, but Vitali's such a good boxer and he's a big puncher as well, I think he'll win in the 9th or 10th round.

Swifty adds more British interest to the Munich bill

This fight is screened live on Box Nation here in the UK and also featuring on the bill is the returning Stephen "Swifty" Smith, his first fight since losing his unbeaten record and British title to Welshman Lee Selby, who devastatingly knocked him out in the 8th round back in November. He is moving up to super featherweight after this, which in my opinion is a great move for him, and in three weeks he takes on Ben Jones for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental title. In Munich he seems to have a pretty comfortable fight against Hungarian Arpad Vass (7-2, 5 KO's), where he will hope for some rounds, with the bout scheduled for eight.