After finding himself briefly in trouble in the second round, Tyson Fury (15-0, 10KOs) won a clear points decision over Derek Chisora (14-1, 9KOs) to become the new British and Commonwealth champion over the weekend.
From the offset Fury was able to land accurately, for the most part avoid the advances of a quickly tiring Chisora, and tie up ‘Del Boy’ whenever he did manage to get close.
As well as he fought though, to some degree Fury’s performance was equaled by the non-performance of his opponent.
Derek Chisora weighed in at a career high of 261lbs after a 10 month layoff, and unsurprisingly to all except himself ran out of steam against a bigger, younger and fresher opponent.
Fury and his team will have known that essentially all they needed to do to beat Chisora was to wait the requisite two or three rounds until he tired himself out.
At world level this won’t be something that they can rely on, and despite beating Chisora, Fury still has big improvements to make.
Thankfully Fury appears to be intent on fulfilling his potential rather than cashing in on a big money fight with one of the Klitschko brothers immediately.
After the fight Fury stated that he intends to defend his British and Commonwealth titles, fight for the Irish title and then move onto the European title before making the leap to world level.
“I just want to do it nice and steady. I’ll go for the Irish title then a defense of the British.”
On the subject of the currently vacant Irish title, Fury elaborated:
“I want to go to King’s Hall, Belfast, for ‘Big Marty'”
‘Big Marty’ in this case refers to Martin Rogan, the now 40 year old brawler who exploded onto the British scene in 2008 following winning the Prize Fighter one night tournament and a victory over Audley Harrison.
