By Geoff Poundes It’s easy to forget in the maelstrom of sporting politics surrounding the event, that David Haye and Dereck Chisora’s heavyweight showdown on Saturday night is, at heart, a sporting contest. There’s no doubt that the fact that the fight now looks like it’s going to happen has major ramifications for British boxing, pitching as it does the sport’s … [Read more...]
Frank Warren & The British Boxing Board of Control At Loggerheads Over Haye-Chisora
by Geoff Poundes Frank Warren and the British Boxing Board of Control are at loggerheads tonight over Warren’s plans to defy the UK’s governing body and forge ahead with a July 14th fight between heavyweights David Haye and Dereck Chisora. Warren has attracted widespread criticism for putting his promotion together after the Board had withdrawn Chisora’s licence, and to … [Read more...]
In the Land of the Blind, the Man with One Eye is King: Heavyweight Boxing in the Doldrums.
by Geoff Poundes It’s been a heavyweight season to forget, for varying reasons – most of them involving the Klitschkos, who continue to foist their own peculiar brand of mediocrity on the division and on the sport in general. On some level it’s difficult to be too critical of the brothers grim – it’s perhaps not their fault that for the last half-decade or so their … [Read more...]
Chisora In Jail and David Haye On The Lam After Press Conference Brawl
By Geoff Poundes British boxing sunk to a new low in Munich last night, when Dereck Chisora and David Haye ambushed the post-fight press conference following Chisora’s losing tilt at Vitali Klitschko’s WBC heavyweight title. Haye, who lost out last summer in an ineffectual challenge for Wladmir Klitschko’s belts, vented his frustrations at stalled contract talks for a … [Read more...]
Vitali Klitschko Slaps Down Dereck Chisora Over Twelve.
By Geoff Poundes. In the end it was much ado about nothing. Britisher Dereck Chisora had done his level best to elevate this WBC heavyweight title fight to something more than a sideshow, when he took a cheap shot at champion Vitali Klitschko at the weigh-in and administered a girlish right-hand slap to the Ukrainian’s cheek. In the aftermath, a row broke out between both … [Read more...]