Chisora slaps Klitschko on eve of fight

Published on Saturday 18 February 2012 12:42

Vitali KLITSCHKO has vowed to take revenge on Dereck Chisora tonight after being slapped on the face by the WBC heavyweight title challenger “like a woman”.

Londoner Chisora shamefully assaulted an unsuspecting Klitschko as the two posed for traditional head-to-head photographs after their weigh-in in Munich yesterday.

Champion Klitschko, 40, did not retaliate as the two men were pulled apart. But the Ukrainian has vowed to punish the Briton at the Olympiahalle.

“I’ll be hitting him back, in the ring,” he warned.

“He’s not all there. Dereck is full of nervousness and I feel he is afraid, otherwise he would not have jumped back like he did.

“He hit me not like a boxer but like a woman, with an open hand. If he wants to fight properly, he must do that with his fists.”

Chisora, 28, is a rank outsider for the contest and attempted to get under the long-reigning champion’s skin.

After weighing in at 17 stone 3lbs, Chisora butted heads before slapping Klitschko’s face hard. The two men were pulled apart with a furious-looking Klitschko, who had weighed in three pounds heavier, left with a red mark on the left side of his face.

Chisora’s camp said they were unaware of the stunt beforehand, with trainer Don Charles even branding the slap “unacceptable”.

Asked whether it was premeditated, the trainer added: “I’m not Dereck Chisora. Like I said, it’s unacceptable.”

Promoter Francis Warren, representing his father Frank’s company, said: “We’re all scratching our heads about it to be honest. You always expect something from Dereck, he’s a character. But it’s usually something that winds people up or is a bit jovial.

“So for him to get physical and aggressive, unprovoked, is surprising. But at the end of the day I’m sure there’s method to his madness and we’ll find out if the madness has paid off.”

Warren added: “I was very surprised though. I wasn’t expecting it at all.

Chisora said: “I’m the underdog in this fight which is exactly how I like it because when I knock him out in the eighth round it will shock the world.”

“I know I’ve got to go in there and do a job on him.

“I’m in tip-top condition and the best shape I’ve been in in my entire career, so I’m confident I’m going to smash Mr Vitali Klitschko to bits.”

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THE MASK

Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 12:01 AM

A disgrace never the less,KLITSCHKO will take this silly yank out in round one,but he might hold him up to round two if he;s going to really hurt him.!!!!!!!!!

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waffen

Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 10:08 PM

The "Louiville Lip" he is not. Ali could and did back up his lip, but he never would have pulled a shameful stunt like this slap. Chisora, like most United States fighters in the past 10 years, will be lost in the shuffle. Where are the fighters of the calber of Louis, Foreman, Ali, Jersey Joe, Marciano, Frazier? Nevermore.

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