{"id":407125,"date":"2026-02-04T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407125\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:37:07","slug":"fabio-wardley-picks-a-winner-in-derek-chisora-vs-deontay-wilder-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407125\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Wardley picks a winner in Derek Chisora vs Deontay Wilder fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

WBO heavyweight world champion Fabio Wardley<\/a> has laid out his prediction ahead of Derek Chisora<\/a>\u2019s fight against former WBC ruler Deontay Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chisora has been linked to a host of heavyweights since defeating Otto Wallin a year ago, with his next outing his 50th, after competing for almost two decades.<\/p>\n

However, despite suggestions that Chisora could challenge for Wardley\u2019s title, it has instead been announced that \u2018Del Boy\u2019 will collide with Wilder at the O2 Arena in two months\u2019 time, hoping to destroy the American\u2019s plans to challenge Oleksandr Usyk for the unified world title.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking to The Stomping Ground<\/a>, Wardley admitted that he favours his countryman in the fight due to the poor form and mentality of \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019, who has lost four of his last six fights.<\/p>\n

\u201cChisora. I think he has just got more in the tank. We haven\u2019t seen that kind of devastating power from Wilder for the last I don\u2019t know how many fights, or just that devastating demeanour, almost, where he goes into the ring and feels like \u2018you know what, I can conquer any man in there\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yeah, I would say Chisora, for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilder-Chisora will take place on Saturday, April 4<\/a>, as the first card of Misfits Pro, a new promotional firm ran by influencer KSI, Mams Taylor and the Sauerland brothers. Boxing News understands that British cruiserweight champion Viddal Riley will compete in the co-main event, expected to collide with EBU titleholder Mateusz Masternak.<\/p>\n

It will also be a co-promotion with Queensberry, with any doubts over the bout taking place resolved after Frank Warren initially stated he had a contract with \u2018Del Boy\u2019 for his next fight.<\/p>\n

Wardley, who himself was briefly linked with a fight against Chisora, is expected to announce his first title defence in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBO heavyweight world champion Fabio Wardley has laid out his prediction ahead of Derek Chisora\u2019s fight against former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-407125","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\/407125","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=407125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}