Dereck Chisora will defend,his european title against Ondrej Pala.

Well I have heard Pala is fighting Pulev on 14 December and there is no way he fights Chisora on 30 November

 

How about Pala fighting TBA and Pulev and Chisora battling it out ?

 

Assuming Pala has been in camp this is a decent fight. I doubt he has though. He's an improvement on that Italian fella anyway.

 

Sometimes I feel like boxers have made up names.

Shows how worldly I am.

 

Maybe if Chisora slips on a banana peel or something Pala will win. Pala's record indicates he can't win against higher level opponents. Pala needs luck for this one.

 

Why does Chisora continue to fight bums? :huh

I guess if I lost every time I stepped up I would too.

 

Boxrec can be useful, but also sometimes counterproductive.

Pala has actually never been soundly defeated in any unflattering way to make it seem he didn't belong in the ring with the opponent.

In the Airich rematch, was in absolute control through five rounds and then got lazy on the inside and caught and hurt by a huge uppercut that would have leveled many top-ranked heavies, yet stayed on his feet and only lost the round 10-9. He then rebounded to outbox Airich in the 7th and 8th but was too depleted by the 9th to fend Airich off and was again hurt, absorbing loads of punishment before the admittedly very sympathetic ref was forced to wave it off while he still had not gone down. If they had a rubber match, presumably he would box safer and conserve his energy better and take an easy shutout UD. In their previous meetings he obviously was the more skillful, but his mental lapse combined with Airich's ham-handed determination proved his undoing in the rematch.

In his other 'stoppage' loss, he actually gave a very good account of himself when he fought Boytsov - taking (and landing) a number of very hard shots on an even keel before suffering a cut on which the bout was halted.

Then you have the first loss, on points to fellow unbeaten prospect Rene Dettweiler, and if you research that one it was considered highly controversial. Even the German media thought Dettweiler should have lost (as did viewers, by acclamation) and was fortunate to have Sauerland Event as benefactor...


So really on no particular night has anyone ever whooped his ass or proven the far better man in the ring. (as has thrice happened to Chisora...)


Both stoppage losses are 100% legit, but it wasn't as though he didn't seem on the same level as Boytsov or Airich. Quite the contrary, Boytsov vs. Pala was looking very competitive and unfortunately came to an unsatisfactory anticlimax because of cuts - and Pala clearly was Airich's superior but succumbed in a classic example of will triumphing over skill when an exploitable mistake presents itself.

Your point about 'higher levels' is poorly informed. Neither Airich nor Dettweiler are 'higher' than him despite holding W's over him, and while Boytsov has kept his zero and somehow continued generating hype and high expectations in the years since, on the night for as long as it lasted he didn't prove himself much greater than roughly equal to Pala's level.



That said, Chisora if on point and fired-up will knock him out without much difficulty. :yep

 

:yep Pala basically has the full trifecta of all three varieties of what are commonly seen as "excusable" losses - an unlucky cut (just a single bad cut in a bad spot, we aren't talking about some TKO6 scenario with a face shredded to ribbons by clean punches), a robbery (which I've never seen anyone defend as being a legit decision), and giving away one he was easily winning and had no business losing. (ie what nearly happened at the end of Bradley vs. Provodnikov...)

Whether he gets in with Pulev or Chisora, he must feel like he just hit the lottery and that his luck has finally taken a turn for the better...and he couldn't be more wrong. :!: He is good - and on a higher 'level' than his record suggests when you dig into the circumstances of his three losses...that is, solid Euro level - but he isn't good enough to hang (or last the distance) with a Pulev or a motivated Chisora.