“I want to be the first heavyweight champion in history to score two trilogies,” claims the Gypsy King, despite the fact that Muhammad Ali had three unforgettable fights with Joe Frazier and Ken Norton. Evander Holyfield had three fights with Riddick Bowie and three more with John Ruiz.
“I have always said that I want to meet Chisora again at the end of my career,” added the reigning WBC world champion. These words can be classified as true, since Tyson has been constantly talking about this for several years.
So it turned out that in the process of supposedly negotiating the fight between Fury and Joshua, the promoters also contacted Chisora's agents. The former European heavyweight champion, after a series of three defeats to Oleksandr Usyk and twice to Joseph Parker, returned to the winning path in early July, successfully defeating Kubrat Pulev. Thanks to this, he got into the top fifteen of the WBC rankings (#14) and received the rights of the challenger.
We add that Fury has already defeated Chisora twice - on points in July 2011, and in November 2014 forced him to surrender between the tenth and eleventh rounds. This will be Derek's second championship shot. In February 2012, he fought Vitali Klitschko, but lost on points.