EDITOR'S NOTE: The WBC has slapped the slapper, Del Boy Chisora with a hefty $50,000 fine and may also fine him re the handwrapping beef with Wladimir Klitschko. Meanwhile, Chisora provoked David Haye and started a wild verbal and physical attack directed at Haye and his manager-trainer Adam Booth after the fight. This all went down at the postfight presser.
SEE POST FIGHT BRAWL VIDEO HERE
At least he came to fight.
Dereck "Del Boy" Chisora was taken to school by 40 year old WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko Saturday night in Munich but the 28 year old from London had nothing to be ashamed about.
Really, I mean it even though I only had Chisora, at a six-inch height disadvantage, winning three out ot the 12 rounds and the three judges all make VKlit an eight point winner on their scorecards.
When I say nothing to be ashamed of for Chisora, yes I include how he pimp slapped Klitschko at the weigh in on Friday and how he spit water into the face of Wladimir Klitschko, younger brother of Vitali and also a heavyweight champion, during the prefight introduction.
If the WBC or the British Boxing Board of Control fine or otherwise penalize Chisora, they are a bunch of hypocrites.
The slap, the spitting of harmless water...it's all part of the boxing circus, all part of the attention getting tactics that help fill up the German stadiums and attract eyeballs for the telecast.
Ditto for Wladimir's barging into the Chisora changing room and insiting that the UK fighter's hands get rewrapped.
Just more fistic fodder also.
Meanwhile, the bottom line here is the heavyweight division is Klitschko Times Two as the dominant brothers keep fighting the same hopeless challengers.
Don't blame them for the low level of their opposition. The Klitschkos are just ruling the roost in a time period when the heavyweight contenders may be the worst in recorded history.
Chisora got it exactly right after the fight when asked by Box Nation's John Rawlings about the slap and the water shower which caused the Klitschko loving Germans to boo him heavily.
"I don't mind the booing," Chisora said. "They can hate me...they paid money to come out and watch boxing, the sport I love..."
Vitali took a different view.
"I respect him as a fighter but I don't have respect for him as a human. He showed bad example for boxing, for all fighters. He is from Great Britain but he's not gentleman."
More telling was Vitali's response when asked if he would fight the limited Chisora again.
"For that," Vitali said, "I knock him out."
Vitali then started talking about a second fight against David "Toe To Toe" Haye which is when I clicked off the telecast.
Reycled contenders with little or no chance to win.
The Klitschkos rule over a garbage dump.
It's not their fault.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
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