{"id":303840,"date":"2025-07-30T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:59:11","slug":"im-out-derek-chisora-rejects-huge-offer-to-face-heavyweight-with-85-ko-ratio-for-final-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303840\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Out”: Derek Chisora Rejects Huge Offer To Face Heavyweight With 85% KO Ratio For Final Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Chisora<\/a> is biding his time and waiting to pick exactly the right opponent for his last ever fight, but has turned down a multi-million pound offer to face one big punching opponent.<\/p>\n

Chisora is a much-loved heavyweight who always brings high intensity to the ring when he fights. He has done so 49 times now across a storied career and has long said he wants to bow out after his 50th.<\/p>\n

He has found some good form of late with wins over Gerald Washington, Joe Joyce and Otto Wallin in his last three outings, most recently in February of this year.<\/p>\n

He is now well placed with the IBF and could get a shot at two-time undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk, but he has also revealed that he has turned down a huge offer for a fight this August in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Speaking to talkSPORT Boxing<\/a>, \u2018Del Boy\u2019 explained how the offer came about to fight the highly rated young prospect Moses Itauma<\/a>, who is 20 years old, has had 12 fights and won 10 by knockout.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a phone call a couple of weeks ago. They offered me to fight Moses Itauma in Saudi. I said how much? They said a couple of million and I said \u2018nah, I\u2019m out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Itauma has stopped Demsey McKean, Marisa Wach and Mike Balogun inside the first two rounds in his last three contests and it highly tipped to be the future of the division<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next time out, he takes a big step up against heavyweight veteran and former world title challenger Dillian Whyte<\/a>. A win against him would catapult him to a new level entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora is biding his time and waiting to pick exactly the right opponent for his last ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114942074112213022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840","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=303840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}