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...]
The British Boxing Year – Not So Much As A Bang But A Whimper…
It’s been a year of near-misses for British boxing in 2011. The UK entered the year with four legitimate world champions and exited with one, and in-between eleven British fighters failed to win in world title fights. December turned out to be our winter of discontent. Amir Khan surrendered his IBF and WBA light-welterweight belts to a resurgent Lamont Peterson, and promptly … [Read more...]
Povetkin; Chisora Should Be Next In Line For The Klitschkos
Boxing can ill afford the kind of injustice meted out to Englishman Dereck Chisora in Helsinki on Saturday night. Chisora, who has laboured at times under the perception that he is something of a clown, had for once whipped himself into some kind of shape for his tilt at much-fancied Robert Hellenius for the EBU’s vacant heavyweight crown. In his previous big fight, … [Read more...]
Yo, It’s Rocky The Musical
It was sorely tempting this week to deliberately ignore the news from Germany that Sly Stallone and the Klitschko brothers have teamed up to produce a stage version of the former’s Rocky movie franchise, set for 2012. I say tempting because the prospect hardly fills one with a sense of joy – the films themselves (were there six in the end, or seven?) were pretty dreadful in … [Read more...]