{"id":356020,"date":"2025-12-18T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356020\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:18:07","slug":"derek-chisora-in-contention-to-challenge-for-world-title-in-50th-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356020\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora in contention to challenge for world title in 50th fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> could be about to benefit with a sudden shot at world honours for his final professional outing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Del Boy\u2019 was poised to take on Dillian Whyte in a trilogy clash in Manchester this month in a landmark 50th pro contest, until the scrap fell through at the final hurdle and the event was cancelled as a result.<\/p>\n

Yet, the failure of that fight could work in Chisora\u2019s favour, as 2026 may well present him with a dramatic third challenge for the heavyweight world title, where he could hang up the gloves with a fairytale ending to his arduous career in the ring.<\/p>\n

The now 41-year-old was comprehensively defeated by both Vitali Klitschko and Tyson Fury in his 2012 and 2022 world title bids, but a recent three-fight win streak<\/a> means he will fancy his chances against newly crowned WBO heavyweight world champion, Fabio Wardley.<\/p>\n

Speaking to iFL TV<\/a>, promoter Frank Warren discussed Wardley\u2019s possible opponents for his first title defence and revealed his interest in a scrap between Chisora and his new champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Fabio Wardley] has got a lot of options because there are plenty of fighters who want to fight for a world title. There is an opportunity there, so we are looking to see what we can put together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, Oleksandr [Usyk] is going to have to defend his other belts because the mandatories for them are there, as well. So, he has got some defending to do. I can\u2019t remember what the next one is, but that will be called for pretty soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, [Wardley vs. Chisora,] I would do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cDerek will be out soon, and he is in a mandatory position himself [IBF], so he has got to be active, or he will lose that spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

There appears to be other options for Chisora too. Confusion still surrounds the IBF mandatory position, with Frank Sanchez and Richard Torrez reportedly poised to meet to determine a mandatory challenger,<\/a> despite \u2018Del Boy\u2019 apparently holding that position.<\/p>\n

Although, it is possible that Usyk may soon vacate his IBF heavyweight world title, meaning Chisora could face the victor of Sanchez-Torrez for a potentially vacant IBF belt next year or alternatively take on Wardley for the WBO crown in his career finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora could be about to benefit with a sudden shot at world honours for his final professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-356020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}