{"id":109450,"date":"2025-05-17T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/109450\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:27:14","slug":"derek-chisora-backed-to-break-50-fight-retirement-pledge-with-world-title-shot-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/109450\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora backed to break 50-fight retirement pledge with world title shot on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Warren is hoping Derek Chisora will retire after 50 fights, but he has a feeling ‘Del Boy’ could box on past the half-century mark.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Queensberry Promotions chief has been tasked with guiding the British heavyweight through the twilight of a career which is expected to end after one final bow.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chisora promised Warren he would retire after 50 fightsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Chisora had promised Warren that he would pack it in after his next bout, but a win over Otto Wallin<\/a> in an IBF eliminator last February has thrown a spanner in the works.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old now finds himself in an unlikely IBF mandatory position with a shot at the winner of Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> and Daniel Dubois<\/a>‘ undisputed clash seemingly on the horizon.<\/p>\n

WBO mandatory Joseph Parker<\/a> is next up in the sanctioning body rotation system, meaning Chisora may have to wait until the second half of 2026 for his shot at world heavyweight gold.<\/p>\n

As a result, Warren anticipates Chisora will fight again during the interim period before he is ordered to box the IBF champion.<\/p>\n

Asked by talkSPORT.com if Chisora will wait out for his shot at the red and gold strap, Warren said: “No, I think he will fight before then.<\/p>\n

“We will see what happens, boxing is an unusual business, it is always changing and evolving.<\/p>\n

“But it is exciting, and this heavyweight division is really exciting.<\/p>\n

“I wish he would stop at 50, but you never know. He might just want to [do 51 fights]. I would prefer it if he retires.”<\/p>\n

Chisora is currently riding a three-fight winning streak in an unforeseen career resurgence. <\/p>\n

After getting stopped by Tyson Fury in 2022, several members of the boxing fraternity urged Chisora to call it a day.<\/p>\n

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A win over Wallin has led to Chisora being made IBF mandatoryCredit: Getty\"He<\/a><\/p>\n

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He could end up fighting the winner of Dubois and Usyk next yearCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

However, the Finchley puncher boxed on to beat Gerald Washington, Joe Joyce<\/a>, and Wallin.<\/p>\n

Following his victory over Wallin in fight number 49, Chisora seemed set on his exit plan.<\/p>\n

At the post-fight press conference, he was asked if he would be tempted to fight 51 times, should he win his 50th outing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, no. That\u2019s it,” he replied. \u201cI think I\u2019m getting old.”<\/p>\n

Whether that proves to be the case is yet to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Warren is hoping Derek Chisora will retire after 50 fights, but he has a feeling ‘Del Boy’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,5061,5062,49838,5122,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-109450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-daniel-dubois","11":"tag-derek-chisora","12":"tag-frank-warren","13":"tag-oleksandr-usyk","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114524117115373697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}