00:00Last weekend, the World of Boxing had an interesting fight with Derek Chisora taking on Wilder in what was Chisora's
00:12swan song, if you will.
00:14And for Deontay Wilder, a chance to get back in that limelight and work his way back into some intriguing
00:19fights.
00:19And I think we accomplished that, but we got there in a very strange way.
00:24Let's talk about it.
00:32So, yeah, that happened on Saturday at the O2 Arena as Deontay Wilder took on Derek Chisora in what was
00:41build going in as Chisora's retirement bout.
00:45And he gets the big entrance and the, oh my gosh, and everything like that.
00:50This is one of the weirder fights I've seen at a high level in a really long time.
00:55And I do still think it was at a high level, high-ish level.
00:59They were talking, and this is kind of the state of boxing, right?
01:03And heavyweight has kind of perpetually been in this area, although it's getting better over the last little bit and
01:09Wilder is part of that.
01:10But they were kind of talking like, hey, a win here, maybe if it's really impressive, maybe one of these
01:15guys gets them in the top 10.
01:16It's like, that's not what this fight should be about.
01:18It's a couple of dudes who we've appreciated watching throughout their careers getting to go at it again.
01:24And one of them will win, probably, and one of them will lose, probably.
01:27And that will be that.
01:30This doesn't need to be, oh, and well, this will put him a fight away from a title shot.
01:34I hope to hell it doesn't.
01:36But it was two good heavyweights who were better at one point, but are still solid now, getting to fight
01:43and getting a bunch of money for it.
01:45And we all enjoyed it.
01:46But this was still weird as hell.
01:49First of all, the officiating was strange, right?
01:51And boxing, I don't think, is ever going to get away from the reputation that the first sign of anything
01:59being a little off,
02:01there's going to be a, oh, see, shady business going on, but felt like maybe some shady business was going
02:07on.
02:08When Chisora could charge in, do whatever, and then the second they would tie up or Wilder starts landing,
02:13it's at the back of the head, back of the head, which, yeah, you don't want to be hitting people
02:19in the back of the head.
02:19That is illegal.
02:20But it just, it felt like the line that Chisora could cross felt a little bit further away than the
02:30line that Wilder could get to.
02:32And then you have the weird thing on the ropes, the first or second round, where they're getting tied up.
02:37It looks like they could both go over in, like, a Batista-John Cena-Royal Rumble 2005 moment.
02:43And the dude from the corner just comes charging in, because the referees are trying to split, the referee's trying
02:49to split him.
02:51Dude from the corner just comes running in.
02:52Now, thankfully, they all kind of broke before this guy could really do anything.
02:57But the referee just is like, hey, get out of here.
02:59Are you kidding me?
03:00Like, how is he still, he came in the ring when the fight's happening.
03:06How is he still able to do it?
03:07So it was just, the whole thing had an air of, what the fuck are we watching going along with
03:14it?
03:14And then you have two guys just throwing bombs with gas tanks of heavyweight fighters in their 40s.
03:21And then the fight goes the distance.
03:24So this was just a wild, weird, crazy odd fight to watch.
03:31Just everything else going along with it just made it a very, very strange night of fights.
03:36And, like, in terms of the fight breakdown, I'm not going to do a bunch on Chisora, because he's not
03:42fighting anymore.
03:43But he brought that classic style, right?
03:45Like, he just ducks his head in and charges in, and he'll land some big shots.
03:49He'll eat some big shots.
03:50And in his mind, hopefully, he does more of the landing than the eating.
03:53And one of those is going to make the other guy go night-night.
03:57That was not the case here, although he landed some hellish shots.
04:01But, like, scoring-wise, I had it for Wilder.
04:04And you can see, kind of, as it went on, Wilder, the more technical style, which you're not going to
04:09say about that dude a whole lot,
04:11but the more technical style, was able to start winning him some rounds.
04:14But it did feel a little bit frustrating.
04:17And again, like, this is a heavyweight champion boxer, and Derek Wilder could, he couldn't even wrap his head
04:24around the amount of ways he could kill me with his bare hands.
04:27But, it felt like watching it, that he should have been able to fight a better fight than he did.
04:34Because Chisora wasn't mixing up the game plan at all.
04:37Plan B, never heard of her.
04:39He is coming in, um, he's ducking his head, he's swinging over hand rights, and he's landing it.
04:44A steady jab.
04:46Not that I think you're going to keep, um, Chisora off.
04:49Like, I don't think you could have jabbed it and you'd be like,
04:50Oh, well, now I don't know what to do.
04:52But you could have been scoring with that a little bit more.
04:55And then he started doing this thing later in the rounds, where he would just kind of paw his jab
04:59out a little bit.
05:00And Chisora would, he kind of just rested on Chisora's head.
05:04Which, like, is weird.
05:06But I thought he was timing it up, because Chisora would do that, and then duck in and go like
05:11this.
05:12And if it's me, or what I thought he was doing, is he's got his hand on his head,
05:17and the second you feel that move, that uppercut comes in.
05:20Because he's ducking every time.
05:22It was not an unpredictable game plan.
05:24And Wilder still gets the win, he still looks impressive.
05:26Almost had the Ric Flair moment, where he did the, I'm sorry, I love you,
05:30and then missed just absolutely punching his left ear through his right ear.
05:35But he still fought a good fight, he still landed very effectively,
05:40and he still ended up getting the win out of it.
05:43It just felt like there, it could have been a bit more dominant with a couple little tweaks from him.
05:49But it is, on the other hand, this feels like the perfect opponent for the awkward style that he has.
05:57Because he, like, he has gigantic power, right?
06:00Like, that has always been the case with Deontay Wilder.
06:03And the technical side, meh.
06:06It hasn't always been there for him.
06:08But he generates more power from the little, like, I want to say T-Rex arm, that's not what it
06:14is,
06:14but it kind of, if you watch him fight, you know exactly the type of punch I'm talking about, right?
06:19Like, just the little inside ones that are just, like, more annoying than anything.
06:23With him, they're, again, maybe not the best reference for right now, but they're nukes, right?
06:30Like, there's so much power that he can generate from that.
06:33And you have a dude who comes charging in.
06:34Like, it fit it, that style of it, perfectly.
06:37So, again, I hope I'm conveying how bat-crap crazy this whole fight was, because it was.
06:44And then, I thought it was weird post-fight.
06:47They're interviewing him in the cage.
06:49Chisora, sorry.
06:50A, he has lost.
06:53He has spent 36 minutes in a fistfight where he got punched in the head more than he punched.
07:00And he's also exhausted.
07:02So, let's give him a lengthy interview.
07:05That seems to make sense.
07:07And I get it was, like, it was his moment and all of those things, but holy hell, the interview.
07:11And he's just going on, he's got this belt celebrating 50 wins, or 50 fights, sorry.
07:17And he's mentioning five guys.
07:18There's no five guys on the belt, but maybe there was a, whatever, a belt manufacturer I'm not aware of.
07:24But, they start, the guy in the cage is asking him, like, is, Derek Chisora, is this your final fight?
07:32And he's like, okay, let me ask the decision maker.
07:34And they pan over to his wife.
07:36And his wife gives a look like, if you do this again, I'll be the one punching you.
07:41And, yeah, no, this is, this was it.
07:42He's like, yeah, no, I'm done.
07:44That's it.
07:44I'm, uh, I'm whatever.
07:45And then a little bit later on, he was like, yeah, I'm just going to go home.
07:48And just, uh, enjoy this ride.
07:50And the announcer, the only human on the planet who would take you this way, is like,
07:54when you say enjoy the ride, do you mean enjoy the ride to one more fight?
07:58Like, no.
08:00Obviously not.
08:01This whole thing's been built on him.
08:02This is his last thing.
08:04We sang Hotel California an hour ago.
08:06And we got really emotional about it because we thought he was, that was it.
08:11Where is this coming from?
08:13Like, it was really weird that it felt like the broadcast was kind of egging him on for,
08:17hey, one more fight.
08:18I know you couldn't beat the 15th ranked heavyweight in the world, but there's a dude from Canada
08:24with a mullet who's got kind of an even record if you want to fight that guy.
08:27Like, it just, it felt very strange.
08:30And it just felt like no matter what he said, they were going to construe it in a way that
08:36was, ah, so you want to return?
08:37He's like, no, that, I want to spend time with my kids, man.
08:40Like, that's the run that I'm looking to enjoy now is to be able to spend time with them.
08:44So it was just, it was a weird, weird main event on DAZN on Saturday afternoon.
08:51What did you guys think?
08:52Am I overblowing some of the stuff that we saw on Saturday?
08:55Let me know in the comments because I just, I thought it was really weird, everything
08:59that went down with that fight card.
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