Chisora Headlining a Matchroom Show - 9 July

Hearn must have a contract with the 02 that he's got to fulfill, can't be any other reason why he keeps putting these kinds of cards on there. So possibly another example of how he massively overestimated his pulling power away from Sky and why DAZN is hemorrhaging money.

The only other explanations are he's keeping up appearances and trying to keep the brand imagine going (very possible with Hearn). Or he's completely lost the plot and really thinks that 20,000 people are going to buy tickets for fights and undercards like this or the one we saw the other week with with Buatsi/Richards.

 

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Carrrrrrroooooooolllllllllliiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnneeeee

 

I’m not sure which will be more of a struggle, Hearn trying to promote this or the fans trying to sit through all 12 rounds.

 

All promoters are having to pay to hold venue's for fights subject to the dates being clear for the provider. Venue's like the o2 are really hard to secure on a Saturday night and often booked by boxing promoters when another gig cancels.

Hearn would have booked the date with the o2 as soon as he got clearance for the date from DAZN. He would have earmarked headliners that can fill that arena, first choice was Conor Benn and second was Chisora, third was likely Okolie. Rather than loose his booking fee and pay for another smaller venue its cost effective to run the o2 providing you sell a minimum of 5k tickets which they will do.

Its difficult to get the bigger venues on dates that work for the broadcaster and is the same reason that Boxxer have elected to share the Manchester Arena with Hatton as they need to sell similar ticket levels to the Chisora fight and Fury does not have a chance at that anywhere but Manchester.

 

Hahahahahahaha. Good ol' Hearn. Game changed

 

Great insight, cheers for that.

 

Sky pushing this 'split decision' nonsense from their first fight cause of one dodgy judge, Pulev won 11 out of 12 rounds in that fight! That was prime Pulev and he absolutely schooled Chisora with ease.

 

This is a mismatch. Pulev won the first fight with ease and the stylistic matchup favours Pulev even more as both have aged: Pulev's path to victory is based on the relatively ageless attributes of size, strength, experience and skill, whereas Chisora's path to victory (outside of landing a big overhand) is based on the faster-declining attributes of durability, determination, speed and stamina. Pulev will be more confident than Chisora as he's already schooled him before and he's coming off back-to-back wins (Mir KO1, Forrest UD10) whereas Chisora is on a three loss streak and looked atrocious in his last fight against Parker (the third rematch he's bungled). Pulev will be more motivated knowing that a loss to Chisora would be disastrous for his legacy and he will know that he won't get any favours from the officials in London. I wouldn't be surprised if the conservative non-puncher Pulev stops Chisora, in what will be Chisora's 8th loss in his last 15 fights going back to May 2016.

 

Pulev has been badly bashed up more than once and Chisora can take him out should he let his hands go.

 

No Mitch Wardley will not be facing Martin lol. More likely to see him in with Dorian Darch.

 

Unfortunately I think you're right. However it would be great to see him in a competitive fight now (right time in his career). The most logical sense is Gorman for the British title but I understand with Cross promotion political BS this unlikely to happen. I just hope that Wardely is put against a much better opponent than Molina (who is his best win thus far in his career) that would be beneficial to career and is actually someone who gives him a competitive fight.

Even if its just one Kuzmin, Wach and Duhaupas type at least they give him rounds.

 

Molina was giving him a competitive fight until he realised it was the round he had money on.

 

Pulev will sleep him

 

Ohhhhhhhhhh Dereckkkkkkkkkkkkk Chisoraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa