Next month, on April 22, the IBF will order the IBF to defend the heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois against his 41-year-old mandatory opponent, Derek Chisora. The two British have a deadline of June 21 to end this battle.
Fans on social media are angry about this struggle. They feel that it is a bad look for 27-year-old Dubois (22-2, 21 COs) to defend his IBF heavyweight title against a clear past his best Chisora (36-13, 23 COs), whose career is pitched with careful match against older fighters.
Safety issues
The IBF should make their title eliminators much more difficult to prevent crop fighters from being mandatory challengers and destroyed by champions. It is not safe to have fighters as old as Chisora who challenges an elite heavyweight like Dubois. In addition, it is a bad product for fans who expect to see a competitive game.
Chisora is the equivalent of an old dinosaur who does not belong to someone who is remotely talented. Putting in dubois 42-year-old Chisora is not safe and makes the sport look bad in the eyes of fans. It is not fair to the naive fans who will buy tickets for the event or order it on PPV if sold in that format.
Chisora would be better at fighting the fighting of old time like the way old baseball players do when they are too old to compete, but to put him in a world champion like Dubois hurts the integrity of the sport. People are upset that the IBF made it easy for a clear Chisora of the past to become the compulsory dubois belt with his fight against Otto Wallin.
The IBF should focus on fighter jets, because Chisora looks and sounds like he’s nowhere near the fighter he was in 2012 when an injured, one-armed Vitali Klitschko hit him. With one arm, Vitali beat Chisora like a drum. Delby looked like he didn’t belong with him in the same ring.
Many boxing fans felt that the Chisora-Wallin struggle should not have been sanctioned as an IBF World title Eliminator. Anthony Joshua knocked Wallin out in five rounds, and he didn’t strike anyone since the defeat. In Wallin’s last battle, he beat an obscure heavyweight named indecaria ehwarim.
The sanction of the Chisora against Wallin fight as a title Eliminator was a joke. Chisora’s record in his last eight fights has been 4-4 since 2020, and his victories have come to these low-level fighters:
Otto Wallin
Joe Joyce: 39
Gerald Washington: 42
Kubrat Pulev: 43
The IBF orders Derek Chisora’s compulsory challenge for Daniel Dubois’s heavyweight world title next month without a final Eliminator
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Last updated on 03/28/2025
