{"id":514564,"date":"2026-03-04T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514564\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:44:07","slug":"tony-bellew-sees-only-one-winner-in-chisora-vs-wilder-knife-through-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514564\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew sees only one winner in Chisora vs Wilder: “Knife through butter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In less than four weeks, Derek Chisora<\/a> and Deontay Wilder<\/a> will step into the ring for their landmark 50th professional bouts.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the fight, Tony Bellew<\/a> has provided his prediction, where he believes one man will go through the other \u2018like a knife through butter\u2019.<\/p>\n

A two-time world title challenger, Chisora\u2019s recent string of victories has seen him rise the rankings and and come close to a possible third shot at the heavyweight crown, with belts expected to soon fragment.<\/p>\n

Yet, Chisora has maintained that he will retire after his showdown with \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019<\/a> next month, promising to hang up the gloves after a near two-decade long career.<\/p>\n

Although, in an interview with First Round Boxing<\/a>, Chisora\u2019s good friend and fellow British boxing fan-favourite, Bellew, believes \u2018Del Boy\u2019 will not walk away from the sport following his dust-up with Wilder.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think it is [his last fight]. I don\u2019t think that he will ever retire from boxing. Boxing will retire that lunatic, he won\u2019t retire from boxing, which is sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the fight itself, Bellew admitted that he would have been concerned if the fight was made a few years prior, but that he now favours Chisora over the American, due to his superior hunger and will to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this fight would have been made three or four years ago, it would have probably caused murder.<\/p>\n

But, at this stage now, I think that he [Derek] will come through a few dodgy moments in the first couple of rounds and then he will go right through him [Wilder], like a knife through butter, in the second half of the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilder is always going to have that punch, but I just don\u2019t believe that he actually wants it, the way that Del wants it. I think that has been apparent in his last few fights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilder-Chisora takes place on Saturday, April 4, at the O2 Arena in London<\/a>, and will be available to watch live on DAZN PPV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In less than four weeks, Derek Chisora and Deontay Wilder will step into the ring for their landmark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-514564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}