{"id":98677,"date":"2025-08-28T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:21:07","slug":"derek-chisora-targeted-by-undefeated-champion-moving-up-in-weight-for-fight-50-hell-get-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/98677\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora Targeted By Undefeated Champion Moving Up In Weight For Fight 50: “He’ll Get Hurt”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> has been biding his time to select his 50th and final opponent.<\/p>\n

Long-time heavyweight servant Chisora has maintained that he will bow out after 50 fights and is currently sitting on 49, having beaten Otto Wallin, Gerald Washington and Joe Joyce in his last three to find some late career form.<\/p>\n

Over a long career, he has faced a fine list of names, including a trilogy with Tyson Fury, two fights with Dillian Whyte and one with Vitali Klitschko. Who comes next remains to be seen, with Chisora in a good position should Oleksandr Usyk \u2013 who beat him in 2020 \u2013 vacate the four belts he holds.<\/p>\n

Other fighters want that sport, and that now could include cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia.<\/p>\n

Speaking to FOX Sports Australia<\/a>, Opetaia\u2019s manager Mick Francis said Riyadh Season\u2019s Turki Alalshikh and Chisora\u2019s promotoers, Queensberry, are keen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken with Turki \u2013 he wants Jai at heavyweight now. And if that were to happen, he\u2019d go straight into number three with the IBF.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is also an opportunity there to fight Chisora \u2026 I\u2019ve spoken with the IBF and said \u2018if Jai goes up, where would you put him?\u2019 and they\u2019ve told me he would go straight to number three in their rankings.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurki Al-Sheikh also wants to make that fight with Chisora. I\u2019ve spoken with Queensberry too, and they\u2019re interested. Everyone knows that fight would be massive. There would be plenty of interest. Although I\u2019d hate to think how much money Chisora would want, because he\u2019s going to get hurt. He\u2019d be no match for Opetaia. I know Jai would hurt him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two-time IBF champion Opetaia is undefeated and has won 22 of his 28 fights so far by KO, two of which have been over Mairis Briedis and drew the best performances from the Aussie.<\/p>\n

He has also stopped the likes of Jack Massey and David Nyika. Last time out in June, he beat Claudio Squeo. Since then has been chasing a fight with unified WBA and WBO champion Gilberto Ramirez with a clear goal to become undisputed, though promoter Eddie Hearn admits that, frustratingly, that may not happen before his charge makes the move to heavyweight. and chases belts up there.<\/p>\n

Opetaia has been ordered to defend his belt against mandatory challenger Huseiyn Cinkara next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora has been biding his time to select his 50th and final opponent. Long-time heavyweight servant Chisora…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-98677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98677","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=98677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}