{"id":399790,"date":"2026-01-31T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399790\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:40:07","slug":"derek-chisora-v-deontay-wilder-confirmed-for-o2-arena-in-london-on-4-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399790\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora v Deontay Wilder confirmed for O2 Arena in London on 4 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora’s fight with former world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has been confirmed for the O2 Arena in London on 4 April. <\/p>\n

The event will be a 50th professional fight for both 42-year-old Chisora and American Wilder, 40. <\/p>\n

Chisora said last year he would retire after a 50th bout which would take place overseas, but the Briton is now set to face Wilder on home soil. <\/p>\n

The pair were due to fight 13 years ago but Wilder withdrew from the bout after an arrest for domestic violence prevented him from travelling to the UK.<\/p>\n

Chisora is on a three-fight winning streak, including points victories over Joe Joyce and Otto Wallin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Wilder held the WBC heavyweight title from 2015 to 2020, winning his first 40 fights, and was once considered the division’s most feared puncher. <\/p>\n

He drew with Tyson Fury in 2018 in the first bout of their trilogy, then suffered successive defeats by the ‘Gypsy King’ in 2020 and 2021. <\/p>\n

Wilder returned in June 2025 after more than a year out with a seventh-round stoppage of little-known Tyrrell Anthony Herndon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora’s fight with former world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has been confirmed for the O2 Arena in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399790","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\/399790","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=399790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}