{"id":751152,"date":"2026-08-27T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751152\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:10:12","slug":"derek-chisora-snubs-deontay-wilder-when-naming-the-hardest-puncher-hes-faced-in-50-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751152\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora snubs Deontay Wilder when naming the hardest puncher he&#8217;s faced in 50 fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/derek-chisora\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derek Chisora<\/a> has faced a who\u2019s who of heavyweights over his two decades in the sport, and recently named the man who hit him hardest.<\/p>\n<p>Chisora made his professional debut back in 2007 and moved 14 fights undefeated before losing to <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> in a British title fight.<\/p>\n<p>Consecutive defeats to Robert Helenius, Vitali Klitschko and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/david-haye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Haye<\/a> \u2013 and a later defeat to Fury in their rematch \u2013 threatened to end his days at the top level, but a resurgence in 2018 with a stunning stoppage old Carlos Takam earned \u2018Del Boy\u2019 more big nights under the lights.<\/p>\n<p>That win set up a rematch with Dillian Whyte following a close loss in their first encounter. Whyte would end the second meeting via devastating left hook, putting Chisora flat out on his back. It\u2019s a shot that he remembers to this day, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/vm.tiktok.com\/ZN8NhfLfA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Figg<\/a> that he has to name Whyte as the hardest puncher he faced because of it, even despite <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/chisora-on-deontay-wilder-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facing American KO artist Deontay Wilder in his latest fight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxrec.com\/en\/box-pro\/569964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Whyte has 21 knockouts from 31 wins.<\/a> He bounced back from an early career defeat to Anthony Joshua to climb the way up the WBC rankings, securing his number one contender position with by avenging a KO defeat to Alexander Povetkin. His world title shot came against Fury, but ended inside six rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Whyte has struggled to reach the top again, most recently losing to rising star Moses Itauma in one round. He has said he is open to a trilogy with Chisora before both men hang up the gloves.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has faced a who\u2019s who of heavyweights over his two decades in the sport, and recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751152","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\/751152","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=751152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}