{"id":215540,"date":"2025-10-21T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:30:12","slug":"derek-chisora-in-talks-to-face-controversial-heavyweight-in-50th-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215540\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora in talks to face controversial heavyweight in 50th fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jarrell Miller is the frontrunner to face Derek Chisora in his 50th, and supposedly, final fight.<\/p>\n

Both parties are in discussions to square off on December 13 in Manchester on a bill headlined by Moses Itauma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Miller<\/a><\/p>\n

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Miller is the frontrunner to face Chisora nextCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

Zhilei Zhang<\/a> had been considered as a potential opponent for Chisora, but discussions have now shifted to Miller.<\/p>\n

Chisora and Miller were slated to headline a bill on February 8.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, a contractual dispute between Miller and his former promoter, Dmitry Salita, resulted in the fight collapsing.<\/p>\n

Instead, Chisora went on to beat Otto Wallin<\/a>, while Miller saw another fight with Fabio Wardley<\/a> fall by the wayside in June due to injury.<\/p>\n

Miller hasn’t set foot in the ring since his disputed draw with Andy Ruiz Jr<\/a> in August 2024.<\/p>\n

The controversial heavyweight rose to notoriety in 2019 when he failed three pre-fight drug tests ahead of his world title clash with Anthony Joshua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another failed test ahead of a bout at the back end of the year against Jerry Forrest resulted in a two-year ban from the sport.<\/p>\n

He returned to the ring in 2022, winning three straight fights before suffering the first defeat of his professional career against Daniel Dubois<\/a> in December 2023.<\/p>\n

While Miller is winless in his last two outings, Chisora is in a rich vein of form.<\/p>\n

The British fan favourite has revived his career with a trio of wins over Gerald Washington, Joe Joyce<\/a> and Wallin.<\/p>\n

\"MANCHESTER,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chisora last fought in February when he defeated Wallin on pointsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

He now finds himself on the verge of a world title shot, with the IBF recently installing him as its mandatory.<\/p>\n

Will Derek Chisora’s next fight be his last?<\/p>\n

Chisora recently declared that his next fight will be his ‘last dance’,<\/a> but that seems unlikely with the IBF dangling a golden carrot over his head. <\/p>\n

Taking to his Instagram story in September, Chisora said: “We are going back to Manchester on December 13, shutdown.<\/p>\n

“Book your hotels, book your restaurants, me and Queensberry are coming to shut it down in Manchester on the 13th of December.<\/p>\n

“The opponent will be announced soon. I had one, but the big boss took him.<\/p>\n

“I’m currently arguing with the big boss about what he wants.<\/p>\n

\"Chisora<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chisora claims his next fight will be his ‘last dance’Credit: Mark Robinson\/Matchroom<\/p>\n

“But the road to 50 [fights] in Manchester.<\/p>\n

“The last dance is happening in Manchester. War!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarrell Miller is the frontrunner to face Derek Chisora in his 50th, and supposedly, final fight. Both parties…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,15283,21827,32864,15923,15920,101,56,54,55,11555,15921,904],"class_list":["post-215540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-date","tag-derek-chisora","tag-jarrell-miller","tag-location","tag-next-fight","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-when","tag-where","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}