Chisora issues plea to judges for Fury fight and claims he beat Usyk

Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora gear up for Saturday’s Tottenham Stadium fight

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Derek Chisora has pleaded for ‘fair judging’ in his fight against Tyson Fury after feeling hard done by in his clash with Oleksandr Usyk two years ago. Del Boy believes he not only won that fight but that a knockdown should have been scored for him during the contest.

In only Usyk’s second fight at heavyweight, Chisora gave him arguably his toughest test in the glamour division. Chisora got off to a hellacious start, sticking it on Usyk from the offset.

Despite dropping many of the earlier rounds, Usyk finished strong and was the deserved winner with scorecards of 117–112, 115–113, and 115–113. However, Chisora doesn’t see it that way.

During an interview with former two-weight world champion Carl Frampton for BT Sport, Chisora claimed judges Christiansen, Koptsev and Williams didn’t give him enough credit for his constant forward pressure during the nip and tuck affair.

He also believes referee Phil Edwards should have awarded him a knockdown in the fourth round when Usyk tumbled to the canvas after appearing to trip over Chisora’s foot.

“Let’s all be honest – on the Usyk fight, I was winning,” Chisora said. “I won that fight. I knocked him down, they didn’t give it to me. You know, this is a problem. You know, and I just hope for this fight on December 3rd that it will be fair judging and a fair ref.

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“You know, because there’s so much going on in this camp for me, you know, I don’t want people to be biased. I just want people to come in with an open mind and be fair. You know, because I know for a fact I’m not coming to lay down. And he’s not coming to lay down, so we just want it to be – I just want it to be fair, basically.”

Chisora faces Fury for a third time on December 3 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. Fury comfortably won their previous two encounters back in 2011 and 2014 and even scored a tenth-round retirement stoppage in their last outing nine years ago.   

Much of the same is expected when they square off again this weekend with few giving Chisora even the slimmest of chances. In the event that Chisora overcomes the odds and beats Fury, several pundits have coined a victory for the 38-year-old as the biggest upset in British boxing history.

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