Summary

  • Tyson Fury successfully defends his WBC heavyweight title against fellow Briton Derek Chisora

  • Fury records 24th stoppage win, Chisora falls to 13th pro defeat

  • One-sided contest is waved off by referee after ten rounds of damage to Chisora

  • Fury faces off with Oleksandr Usyk in the ring after the fight

  • Briton Daniel Dubois knocked down three times by Kevin Lerena but pulls off stoppage win

  • Get involved #bbcboxing

  1. Postpublished at 20:12 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    The Yvan Mendy-Denys Berinchyk fight went the full 12 rounds, so we go to the judges' scorecards.

    The European lightweight title goes to... the challenger Berinchyk, who wins on one score card 117-112, and the others 116-112.

    Earlier Berinchyk entered the ring wearing full Ukranian military fatigues, in support of his fellow countrymen fighting Russia.

    Denys Berinchyk in full army gear in the ringImage source, Getty Images
  2. 'If you have a big family around you, that’s wealth'published at 20:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Derek ChisoraImage source, BBC Sport
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    Derek Chisora, at 18st 8lbs, is at his heaviest weigh-in weight for five years

    Derek Chisora has his two daughters - nine-year-old Angelina and three-year-old Harare - among those cheering him on at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tonight.

    "I want them to come now because I’m on the way out so I want them to understand why I don’t do the school run or go to play dates," said Chisora.

    "My girls are my bosses. My oldest one, she is offering all of her friends tickets for the fight and going ‘I’m going to give tickets to so and so and so, can I have the tickets to give them at school’ and there’s no tickets and she gets so upset.

    "Every day I pray and get down on my knees and pray to God just give me money to put food on a table for my kids and everything else God just make it happen. Sometimes you have to grow up and that made me grow up, being a dad.

    "Family is the most important thing in life, if you have a big family around you, that’s wealth."

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  3. Chisora vows to silence criticspublished at 20:05 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Underdog Derek Chisora says he does not care what the critics think as he bids to upset Tyson Fury and win the WBC heavyweight title on Saturday.

    Chisora has lost 12 times in 45 bouts, including three of his last four, and been beaten twice before by Fury.

    "I don't care what is said. For me to give up, just because a newspaper says so, I can't do that," he said.

    "It is going to be the best first round in the heavyweight game ever, you're going to love the whole show."

    You can read what Chisora had to say in full here.

  4. Getting readypublished at 20:02 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    A huge roar from the fans as Tyson Fury getting his hands wrapped backstage is shown on the four massive screens in every corner of this amazing stadium.

    FuryImage source, BBC Sport
  5. WATCH: Fury bursts on stage at press conferencepublished at 20:00 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    It wouldn't be a pre-Tyson Fury fight press conference without some shenanigans from the man himself...

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    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora: Fury makes an entrance at press conference

  6. Fury's 10 grand gesturepublished at 19:58 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Tyson FuryImage source, BBC Sport

    For a while it looked like tonight's fight was going to see Anthony Joshua in the opposing corner to Tyson Fury, not Derek Chisora.

    Promoter Frank Warren was so confident a deal could be sealed with the two-time world champion, he made a hefty bet with Fury.

    “I said we will get it done and had a £10,000 bet with Tyson so I blew 10 grand on that," said Warren.

    At the first news conference, a delighted Fury said: "Frank Warren, he is a man of his word. Massive respect, in my bag is 10,000 pounds in cash that I have collected from Frank because I bet him Joshua wouldn’t sign the contract.

    "Guess what, 10,000 pounds received tax-free bet money. That money means more to me than 10 million because I’ve got it in my hand and won it from Frank Warren."

    But it wasn't in Fury's hand for long. At the same news conference Fury, in a brilliant gesture, donated the whole lot to charity with the £10,000 going to DEBRA, a charity supporting those affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a painful genetic skin blistering condition.

  7. 'A big fight needs to happen next'published at 19:55 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Carl Frampton
    Former world champion

    When you think of Chisora as an opponent, initially I was a bit disappointed. But, when you got through the list of other opponents who weren’t available then it’s not a bad fight.

    But I think what needs to happen next is a big fight with AJ or Usyk or even Joe Joyce so that criticism doesn’t get thrown at them. If it’s not one of the big names then it will be difficult to manoeuvre around that.

    I think he [Fury] needs to have a big fight and this fight is to stay busy. He needs to stay busy so that’s why I don’t mind this one.

  8. Why is Tyson Fury fighting again?published at 19:53 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    In April Tyson Fury was finished with boxing, but now he has realised he just cannot live without it.

    Fury puts his WBC world heavyweight championship on the line on Saturday as he fights fellow Briton Derek Chisora with 60,000 watching at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

    After defeating Dillian Whyte with a stunning sixth-round stoppagein front of 94,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in the spring, Fury said: "This might be the final curtain for the Gypsy King."

    But Fury, born three months premature, weighing just one pound and not expected to live, has been a fighter all of his life. And he just can't stop.

    You can read Michael Emons' big fight preview in full here.

  9. Cautious Arum 'will be as nervous as anyone'published at 19:52 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    FightImage source, BBC Sport
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    Bob Arum (second left), with Tyson Fury, George Warren and Derek Chisora

    There's not much that Tyson Fury's US co-promoter Bob Arum has not seen in his lifetime in boxing and the 91-year-old spoke of a cautionary tale at the first news conference.

    "This [fight] gives me nightmares, with all due respect to Tyson, who I love dearly," said Arum, who will be hoping Fury fights Oleksandr Usyk for all the heavyweight gold early in 2023.

    "I remember when Tommy Morrison had won the WBO Heavyweight Championship against George Foreman and was matched in a unification fight with Lennox Lewis for then record purses. His manager said ‘give Tommy a tune-up fight to get him ready for Lennox' so we did in Tommy’s home town in Oklahoma against Michael Bentt [in October 1993].

    "The bell rang, Tommy went across the ring and started throwing punches like mad and Bentt hit him with a right hand and knocked Tommy out cold. That was the end of the fight with Lennox Lewis and a 10 million dollar purse, which was a lot of money.

    "This is boxing, every time you match, particularly heavyweights against hard-punching opponents, you have to really say a lot of prayers that something bad doesn’t happen.

    “Although I have every confidence in the world in Tyson, the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, I will be as nervous as anyone the night of the fight.”

  10. 'Fury to stop Chisora in the middle rounds'published at 19:50 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Carl Frampton
    Former world champion

    I’ll predict it’ll be a better fight than Tyson and Dillian Whyte. I was a bit disappointed by Dillian Whyte. He was lacklustre and it was a strange performance from him really. He’s a good fighter, but there was nothing there and it was really, really easy for Tyson Fury.

    I think one thing with Tyson now is I think he’s not able to move around how he used to. He has this ability to avoid punches and he’s got good head movement, but he used to be able to get up on his toes and dance around the ring like a featherweight.

    I don’t think he can do that as much as he used to which means he’ll have to stand and fight, use brute force. That gives Derek a better chance because that’s his style, Derek loves someone who will stand and have a fight.

    But in saying that Fury is clever enough and probably stop Derek at some point. But Derek’s one of those guys, he literally looks exhausted after three or four rounds but continues to swing it out. A brave man who really loves to fight. But I reckon Tyson will stop him in the middle rounds.

  11. Fury v Chisora III predictionspublished at 19:48 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Fury, 34, aims to collect a 33rd win of his career and stay on track to fight IBF, WBO and WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk in an undisputed heavyweight contest in 2023.

    Chisora has twice before been beaten by Fury and, at 37, is a huge underdog.

    But this is heavyweight boxing, anything can happen. Is Fury too good? Can Chisora pull off one of the biggest upsets ever?

    Pundits and pros make their predictions here.

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  12. 'You cannot be confident when it comes to Tyson Fury'published at 19:47 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    More from Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter Alex Krassyuk, who says he is still unsure about whether a blockbuster fight between his man and Tyson Fury can happen because of the English boxer's unpredictability.

    "You cannot be confident when it comes to Tyson Fury," he said. "This is the man who has been retiring for the last six months maybe four or five times, coming back seven times then planning to retire again.

    "[Then he wanted] to fight Joe Joyce, to fight Dubois, to fight Anthony Joshua, maybe Deontay Wilder again. Lately he says he has a plan to make 12 fights in 12 different cities following the statement he’s going to fight five times in big stadiums. There’s no logic in his announcement.

    "But we respect him, we know he’s an entertainer to draw as much attention. He’s done a considerable job for boxing here in the UK. He’s developing attention

    "We have to be grateful for such a character. I can tell you from Usyk’s point of view, Usyk is ready to take this challenge. He’s willing and most of the conditions are set. All we need is Tyson Fury’s yes to go with, how he used to say, Ukrainian rabbit middleweight. He [will] get bitten and his belt will go to Ukraine.”

    Krassyuk suggested that the middle east is a likely destination for the fight - but that a clash in London at Wembley, or Tottenham Hotspur Stadium again, is not off the table.

  13. Postpublished at 19:45 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Dubois v Lerena follows the undercard bout currently going on - a European lightweight title clash between champion Yvan Mendy and Ukrainian challenger Denys Berinchyk.

    Berinchyk was well on top in the early stages, but Mendy starting to pull himself back into it after six rounds of 12.

    Denys Berinchyk throws a punchImage source, Getty Images
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    Get Involved #bbcboxingpublished at 19:43 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Daniel Dubois v Kevin Lerena

    In the co-main event, Daniel Dubois takes on South African Kevin Lerena.

    It's only Lerena's fourth fight at heavyweight having spent most of his career at cruiserweight. Could he spring a shock or will Dubois record his 18th knockout?

    Steve Gidds: "The Dubois fight is really interesting and I’m looking forward to seeing what trainer Shane McGuigan has been working on with DD natural talent, skies the limit for him."

    Rambo McGowan: "If Dubois does what he does, he gets Lerena out early unless he’s packed his running shoes."

    Jonathan Best: "This fight is unlikely to be a quick blow out IMO. Larena is sturdy, relatively skill full and he is short for the weight, so it will be more awkward for Dubois to land some of his powershots."

    Marshall Funnell: "Lerenas speed and movement wins this fight, DDD gonna get peppered and stopped late on."

  15. Usyk in attendancepublished at 19:42 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    A clash between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk is being touted should Fury win tonight, and the Ukrainian's promoter, Alex Krassyuk, has confirmed he will be ringside tonight.

    "He’s going to be attending the fight to support his countryman, his friend, his Olympic team-mate Denys Berinchyk, who is fighting on the card in a big fight," Krassyuk said.

    "He has to be in attendance when his next opponent is fighting. He will be at ringside watching and maybe after the [fight] he will want to say a couple of words to the winner.”

    And are Usyk's camp there to scout Fury?

    “That’s exactly the reason for his travel," confirmed Krassyuk. "He want to see, he want to prove, the want to make a statement to the whole world that he is for that fight [with Tyson Fury]. This fight is almost about to happen.

    "We are very close, even closer than any time before in history. This is a historical fight. First time in four-belt era in heavyweight division there is a chance that a fighter can unify.

    "It is a special moment for Usyk because he has a chance to unify the belts in two divisions, being the cruiserweight undisputed champion and becoming the undisputed champion at heavyweight. It’s a specific moment. He can’t miss this opportunity.

    "Of course he will definitely want to look into the eyes of his next opponent, see how things are going there.

    "Is someone scared or not? At the end of the day we have everything on board. We have Queensberry, K2, we have Oleksandr Usyk’s team, we have Oleksandr Usyk himself, our partners in Middle East ready to stage this fight so the only thing that is pending is the consent of a tall, bald, gypsy man.”

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  16. Undercard wins for Itauma, Lowe, Burton and Barney-Smithpublished at 19:40 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    On the undercard, British light-heavyweight Karol Itauma maintained his unbeaten professional record with his ninth win in a row.

    He stopped Slovakia's Vladimir Belujsky in the eighth round, the last of the contest, after knocking his opponent down the round before.

    There were also routine points wins for Isaac Lowe (super-featherweight) and Hosea Burton (cruiserweight) over Sandeep Singh Bhatti and Reinis Porozovs respectively, while 18-year-old Royston Barney-Smith won his lightweight fight against Cruz Perez inside a minute after flooring his opponent with a superb left hook.

  17. Postpublished at 19:38 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Both Fury and Chisora are in the building. Huge cheers when Fury shadow-boxing in his changing room were shown on the big screen.

    Fury is 1/33 to win tonight. So the bookies have their pick.

    Then again, Mike Tyson was 1/42 to beat Buster Douglas...

  18. get involved

    Get Involved #bbcboxingpublished at 19:37 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    It might not be the most competitive fight on paper, bit this IS heavyweight boxing - anything can happen, right?

    Get your predictions in to us - are you team Fury or team Chisora?

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  19. Another big night of heavyweight boxing in Tottenhampublished at 19:35 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora

    Michael Emons
    BBC Sport at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Tottenham Hotspur StadiumImage source, BBC Sport
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    From this on Thursday…

    This is the second world heavyweight title fight to take place at the amazing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after Anthony Joshua lost his IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts to Oleksandr Usyk on a unanimous points decision in September 2021.

    When an opponent and venue for Tyson Fury was being decided, the talk was that it would be held under the roof at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, while Manchester United’s Old Trafford was another open-air option.

    But Tottenham, without any Premier League football here for the rest of the year because of the World Cup, got the nod and we’re set for a thrilling (and very, very cold) evening in one of the best stadiums in Europe.

    Fury got a few laughs on Thursday in the news conference when he said “wouldn’t it be great if it snowed at Wembley on Saturday”, before Derek Chisora quickly reminded him where we were.

    TottenhamImage source, BBC Sport
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    …to this tonight.

  20. Background to the boutpublished at 19:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 December 2022

    Fury and Chisora first collided more than a decade ago, at Wembley Arena in 2011. Both had 14-0 records and Chisora was defending his British and Commonwealth titles, however Fury won by unanimous judging decision.

    They clashed again in 2014, at the ExCel, with Fury winning by corner retirement in round ten.

    Now, as seasoned pros, they meet again in 2022 - Fury unbeaten in 33 fights, Chisora with a 33-12 record.

    Interestingly, they are tied on career KOs - both have 23. Will one of them move ahead tonight?