LONDON – A third fight between Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte is “100 per cent” certain to happen on December 13, according to Chisora.
The rival heavyweights were ringside at London’s O2 Arena before the main event between Joseph Parker and the Whyte-managed Fabio Wardley, and they revealed their determination to fight for a third time – six years after Whyte stopped him to record his second victory over him.
Chisora, 41, has long insisted that he will retire after what would be his 50th professional contest. However Jarrell Miller, considered an alternative opponent for the potential date in Manchester, England, was also present in London alongside an estimated 95 per cent of the world’s population of heavyweights who, like Parker and Wardley, are also guided by Queensberry Promotions.
Also present at The O2 were Tyson Fury, Daniel Dubois, Lawrence Okolie, Joe Joyce, David Adeleye, the promising Moses Itauma, and Agit Kabayel, but it was Britons Chisora and Whyte who demanded the most attention when they spoke.
“Yeah, if the contract is right,” Chisora first responded when asked about his interest. “If the contract is right.”
The 37-year-old Whyte, who in declining even more alarmingly than Chisora arguably succeeds in making Chisora’s latest fight even more reckless than it already appeared, responded, when asked the same question: “I said ‘Yeah, let’s go, whatever’. I don’t run from no fights. I’ll take any fight on, regardless.
“He says, ‘Contact this, contract that’. I don’t give a fuck about that. When it’s done, it’s done. Time waits for no man.”
“Listen, I want the fight, but the paperwork has to be right,” Chisora then said. “The fight’s going to be amazing. Dillian has got two over me right now. That was a good left hook he hit with me with. I thought I was winning.
“The fight will happen in December with Dillian, 100 per cent. It’s going to be an explosive fight. This one will be better than this show.”
Miller, unquestionably interested in instead fighting Chisora, similarly appeared resigned to them entering a trilogy and, in turn, said: “I know Frank [Warren] has some tricks up his sleeve. If they have this fight on December 13 I’ll hopefully get the winner after.”
“We want to see the trilogy between these two,” said the promoter. “They’ve got history – two great fights they’ve had.”
