{"id":393012,"date":"2026-01-27T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:06:07","slug":"derek-chisora-makes-decision-on-whether-he-will-retire-even-if-he-beats-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393012\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora makes decision on whether he will retire even if he beats Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> has announced that he will face Deontay Wilder<\/a> in his 50th bout, but a victory could earn him a shot at the heavyweight throne. Now, the 49-fight veteran has revealed whether he would walk still walk away from the sport as promised if a challenge for the heavyweight title is on the cards.<\/p>\n

Chisora was linked to a host of heavyweights throughout 2025 after overcoming Otto Wallin last February, but after many failed discussions for what he has branded his final professional contest, it appears as though \u2018Del Boy\u2019 has settled on Deontay Wilder.<\/p>\n

Wilder\u2019s name has been on the lips of unified heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, and a victory over the 42-year-old Brit could well still earn \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 a shot at the Ukrainian mastermind.<\/p>\n

The in-form Chisora may spoil those plans and make his case for a rematch with Usyk, whom he lost to by just one round on the scorecards when they collided in 2020.<\/p>\n

Although, in an interview with talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, Chisora maintained that he will still hang up the gloves, even if he is able to trump Wilder, after a stern warning from his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I beat Wilder], then I retire, after Wilder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling you, listen, my wife has already told me. \u2018if you strap up any more gloves, I am out\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chisora and Wilder are expected to fight in April, in what would be Wilder\u2019s second fight on British soil, 13 years after he halted Audley Harrison inside one round of their Sheffield scrap<\/a> on the undercard of Amir Khan\u2019s catchweight clash with Mexico\u2019s Julio Diaz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has announced that he will face Deontay Wilder in his 50th bout, but a victory could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393012","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=393012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}