Fury retains his WBC heavyweight belt by defeating Dereck Chisora

The English Tyson Fury, nicknamed "gypsy king"retained his WBC heavyweight champion belt this Saturday in London by defeating his compatriot Dereck Chisora ​​after the referee stopped the fight in the tenth round.

This is the third victory for Fury, 34, over Chisora, 38, in three bouts, after those in 2011 and 2014. The winner beat him at every turn before some 60,000 spectators gathered at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, north of the capital of England.

Fury had to wait until the tenth round and the referee’s decision, logically, against a tough Chisora, who resisted and showed his courage, but whose balance was known: 33 wins to 12 losses and, therefore, a thirteenth this Saturday for the night, after suffering an avalanche of blows, although he never resigned.

"What a fighter, what a warrior", declared Fury in the ring, to pay tribute to Chisora, after his 33rd victory, 24 of them by KO, with one draw and no defeat. It was a spectacular fight, with the Ukrainian Oleksander Usyk as a spectator and who owns the other three belts in the category (WBA, WBO, IBF).

Usyk waits for Fury

Fury is bigger, heavier, and with a greater wingspan than Chisora. Against Usyk, if the unification of the belts takes place next year, it will be another story, but Fury really wants it, as he said in the ring insulting the Ukrainian, live, to the delight of the public.

"Usyk, you’re next on the list"Fury told him, microphone in hand. "You’re a little guy and I’ve already beaten a Ukrainian (Vladimir) Klitchsko, so now it’s your turn, little b…", Fury pitched at him, live on BT Sport. All this in front of Joe Joyce, another British heavyweight.

"We will see us again"Usyk promised him, in front of his eyes, in what should be the first unification fight for an English heavyweight since Lennox Lewis, since the fight against another Briton, Anthony Joshua, former WBA, IBF and WBO champion, will never end. organized.

It was Usyk who dethroned Joshua in September 2021, depriving him of his three belts. He defeated him again last August, in Saudi Arabia, but didn’t feel ready to take on Fury this year. Negotiations are continuing, said Bob Arum, Fury’s promoter, for this highly anticipated fight.