The case against: 1. Fury may carry Chisora 12 rounds out of friendship and a desire for ring time (these factors were relevant against former sparring partner Pianeta) 2. Chisora is still fairly durable, tenacious and savvy, having gone 12 rounds with Usyk, Parker x2 and Pulev in the prior 25 months 3. Fury isn’t the biggest puncher at heavyweight and may not be fully fit or very motivated The case for: 1. Fury will want to make a modest statement and upstage many AJ opponents (Usyk in particular) and AJ himself (who only has 1 KO win in the last 4 years: a late stoppage over a man that Chisora recently beat) 2. Fury is on a three fight KO streak with a 70% career KO ratio and will want to keep it going up for ego/legacy reasons (Chisora may have been selected partly for this reason) and to entertain the spectators who are getting what everyone expects to be a totally uncompetitive fight 3. Sugar Hill’s influence 4. Chisora is nearly 39 after an almost 20 year career as a pressure fighter, has looked shopworn in his previous two fights, is returning to the ring with only 147 days since his last fight, is primarily coming for a payday and seems to be punch drunk: he’s considerably less confident (the same goes for Don Charles) athletic and durable than he was when a defensive Fury busted him up with a jab and made him quit after 10 in 2014, and the officials will be cognizant of this 5. Chisora will try his best to KO Fury, which will increase the amount of damage he takes in return
It won't be a real fight, it's just a sparring contest between friends. Anyone who pays to watch it is a simpleton.
Fury gently grabs him and kisses him softly whispering "you're my one true dosser" before burying him with a left hook. Usyk is ringside pulling stupid faces and saying "feel very feel"whilst ellie sekbax jerks him off telling him he beats Fury all day everday
I don't think Fury will show up in the best shape and won't put on the best performance, so I could see Chisora lasting the distance this time. Chisora too is a bit more crafty than when he last fought Fury, he knows now to ride out the tough moments better as we saw vs Takam. So the combination of a less than focused Fury and a more experienced Chisora could see this go to points and Fury winning a wide UD.
There's little doubt Chisora will take it to Fury and try make it a war. Even if Fury wanted to coast to a points win, Chisora won't let him. For these reasons, he's getting stopped...
He's certainly a bit more chinny. People who've been watching Chisora since the start know that policy of taking breathers and playing cute on the ropes is something he's always been able to do when he felt it necessary, it's not a new wrinkle at all. And it won't help him against Fury, who knows how to use his left hand to manipulate and open him up in that position.
Fury will play with him for a while. After getting bored and maybe clocked with a few wild shots he'll take him out.
Chisora has only stamina for 3 rounds, went down three times versus Parker, he will get stopped for sure.
Hmm... Chisora has a hard head, but no stamina for more than 4 rounds. Sure the years of taking all the beating are saying their word. And considering Fury changed the style to be more aggressive with his power and size, I give a high chance of knocking Chisora out or at least some stoppage.
I wouldn't say he's more chinny, he's only been stopped once by Whyte since he last fought Fury. Now his stamina is definitely worse, I could see him getting stopped simply down to sheer exhaustion which is kind of what happened with Whyte, he didn't have anything left and was caught cold. Now I think Chisora would just back off and try to rest he's no longer in the kind of condition where he can push himself into the red zone and sustain it for very long. Chisora didn't really rest or take many breathers against Fury last time, he was rarely on the ropes and he went 10 rounds. So it's not out of the question that he could last 2 more rounds if he backs off more and takes more rests, which he will definitely need to do this time because no way he can sustain it like he did for 10 rounds before.