Dominant Fury pounds lacklustre Chisora
Tyson Fury stayed unbeaten by defeating Dereck Chisora by 10th-round TKO in their heavyweight rematch in London.
Heavyweight contender Tyson Fury laid a one-sided beating on British countryman Dereck Chisora in a world title eliminator before Chisora's trainer, Don Charles, threw in the towel after the 10th round on Saturday night at the Excel Arena in London.
Fury dominated the entire fight -virtually every single second- to earn a mandatory title shot at one of world champion Wladimir Klitschko's belts.
In addition, Fury also claimed Chisora's European title and the vacant British championship.
"Wladimir Klitschko, I'm coming for you, baby," Fury said.
"I'm coming. No retreat, no surrender."
Fury and Chisora are two of the biggest trash talkers in boxing, which made for a heated promotion in which they promised to do all kinds of bodily harm to one another in the fight, which had been postponed from July 26 because Chisora fractured his left hand during his final sparring session just eight days before the scheduled fight.
In the end, however, it was all Fury, who won their rematch going away.
Fury beat Chisora even easier than he did the first time they met in 2011, when he pounded out a clear, but competitive, unanimous decision in an exciting fight. In the first meeting, Chisora was 261 pounds (118.38 kilograms), about 20 pounds (9kg’s) heavier than his usual fighting weight, and not in top condition.
For Saturday night's fight, the 6-foot-2 Chisora was 241 pounds (109kg) and in fine condition, but had no answers for the 6-9, 264-pound (119.74kg) Fury, who usually boxes right-handed but turned southpaw for much of the fight and battered Chisora with a long right jab.
From the outset, Fury (23-0, 17 KOs) gave Chisora (20-5, 13 KOs) problems as he jammed the jab in his face and kept him on the outside.
Chisora had no way to get inside other than by landing a couple of low blows, for which he was warned by referee Marcus McDonnell in the first round.
The fight was so easy for Fury, 26, that there was little action.
He simply doubled and tripled his jab against a plodding Chisora, 30, who sopped up tremendous punishment.
After all the hype, it was a disappointing fight, but one in which Fury boxed well and controlled Chisora, whose five-fight winning streak ended, with ease.
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