{"id":528220,"date":"2026-04-13T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T08:54:09","slug":"derek-chisora-says-he-is-not-retired-and-reveals-his-target-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528220\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora says he is not retired and reveals his target fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> has seemingly made a U-turn on his retirement promise, revealing his interest in one last fight before finally hanging up the gloves.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old insisted he would retire after reaching a total of 50 professional outings, which he managed to achieve against Deontay Wilder last week.<\/p>\n

Their showdown delivered an action-packed but largely untidy spectacle, with neither veteran proving to be capable of competing at the top level.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but the two heavyweights were guilty of multiple infringements, to which referee Mark Bates responded by deducting just one point from Wilder.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, \u2018The Bronze Bomber\u2019 edged a split decision through 12 rounds<\/a> and, in turn, has kept himself in the shop window for another lucrative opportunity.<\/p>\n

As for Chisora, it would appear that he, too, is sniffing around for at least one last dance, hoping to secure a rematch with his American counterpart.<\/p>\n

Speaking with talkSPORT<\/a>, the Londoner claimed this is the only fight for which he is willing to hang around, while also expressing his frustration with how their first encounter unfolded.<\/p>\n

More specifically, Chisora believes the two knockdowns given against him were mightily unfair, but also feels he deserved to have his hand raised either way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very upset with the scoring. The two knockdowns that [were] given were pushes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you: the whole thing was a shambles, on my side and his side as well. But I wanna get a rematch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many would agree that referee Bates failed to take control of the fight, though there was perhaps less of an uproar about Wilder claiming a victory on points.<\/p>\n

Either way, fight fans are hardly clamouring for a rematch between the pair, despite both of them engaging in an enthralling but technically-limited battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has seemingly made a U-turn on his retirement promise, revealing his interest in one last fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528220","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\/528220","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=528220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}