Tuesday 16 July 2013

Malik Scott v Del Chisora, doors can open for the winner.

Saturday night at Londons Wembley Arena, Britain's heavyweight bad boy Dereck Chisora takes on unbeaten Philadelphian Malik Scott, a solid live campaigner who has been a pro since 2000. Dereck may have only had 20 fights but he is not short of championship experience having boxed for and won both the British and Commonwealth titles and only falling marginally short in a Euro title bid away from home against Rob Helenius where he dropped a controversial split earning a crack at Vitali Klitschko's WBC title in Munich in 2012. Dereck boxed out of his skin that night before marring his performance with his unforgivable antics before and after the bout. Malik has remained unbeaten for 13 years but he has not honestly stepped into World level yet and this will by far be his biggest International outing to date. Skill wise Malik is the genuine article, he has a fabulous Jab and can use it to set up a great arsenal of accurate shots on his day. The questions start for me by way of hunger, from 2004 until 2008 he scored 11 wins all by comfortable unanimous decision, and between 2008 and 2012 he took 4 years away from the ring and in a whole 36 fight career he hasn't yet faced a real live gut check until perhaps his last outing where he was unlucky to drop to a draw against young unbeaten Olympian Vyacheslav Glazkov in NJ. Chisora is not afraid of the Big Occasion and he showed loads of courage in his last big fight against Haye in 2012 before being stopped in the 5th of what was warming into a tasty little match up. Neither men are renown for being huge bangers, Del having 10 Ko's and Malik having only 12 ko's in 36 , but both are live willing potential contenders looking to open doors for themselves on Saturday. Both men are larger than life colourful characters and both like to talk a lot, hence this weeks comical war of insults to hype the event.  It's the tall rangy unbeaten untested unknown v the rugged dangerous wildcard...  It could be fun..  More to come as we near fight time.  It's a great card ..

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