Tyson Fury v Derek Chisora: Challenger ready to defy critics and win WBC Heavyweight Championship

Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora volition combat for a 3rd clip connected Saturday

Underdog Derek Chisora says helium does not attraction what the critics deliberation arsenic helium bids to upset Tyson Fury and triumph the WBC heavyweight connected rubric connected Saturday.

"I don't attraction what is said. For maine to springiness up, conscionable due to the fact that a paper says so, I can't bash that," helium said.

"It is going to beryllium the champion archetypal circular successful the heavyweight crippled ever, you're going to emotion the full show."

Earlier this week, Fury and Chisora vowed to basal successful the mediate of the ringing successful the opening circular astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and spell toe-to-toe for the archetypal 3 minutes.

Chisora, 38, fought for the WBC loop 10 years ago, losing connected points to Vitali Klitschko, and revealed that Fury was the main designer down this fight.

"He gave maine a telephone telephone and enactment nutrient connected my kids' table," helium added.

"He has fixed maine an accidental erstwhile Frank Warren didn't privation to springiness maine an opportunity, Bob Arum didn't privation to springiness maine an accidental and my erstwhile promoter Eddie Hearn didn't privation to springiness maine an opportunity.

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"All of these guys successful the crippled don't privation maine connected this stage. But relationship volition beryllium retired of the doorway and this large antheral volition get it. I volition not clasp back, I'm going to war.

"I privation to instrumentality what's his and marque it mine."

'This is my hobby and what I emotion to do'

Fury, who announced helium would discontinue from boxing successful April lone to instrumentality a fewer months later, said: "I'm successful a precise bully spot with boxing astatine the moment. I'm back, I'm hungry, I'm putting the enactment in, I'm grinding.

"I've been successful emotion with boxing for specified a agelong clip from being a small lad and I'm 34 now, astir apt astatine the extremity of my vocation successful the adjacent fewer years. It has been a love-hate narration and it has been toxic astatine times, but erstwhile it is good, it is precise good.

"I've wanted to permission a batch of times but it ever drags maine back. It's similar a monolithic cause and an addiction.

"Boxing is much addictive than immoderate cause ever due to the fact that you can't fto it go.

"This is simply a hobby present alternatively than a concern oregon sport. This is my hobby and what I emotion to do."

Dubois aims for different speedy night

Daniel Dubois has won his past 3 fights since a decision to Joe Joyce

While Fury's bout with Chisora is the main event, there's besides different British heavyweight successful enactment for the main enactment arsenic Daniel Dubois defends his WBA (regular) rubric against 30-year-old South African Kevin Lerena.

Dubois, 25, suffered the lone nonaccomplishment of his vocation successful a 10th-round knockout to chap Briton Joe Joyce successful November 2020 aft suffering a fractured oculus socket, earlier winning his adjacent 3 fights.

Last clip out, helium defeated the previously-undefeated American Trevor Bryan successful Miami to pick up the WBA (regular) belt and, astatine 6ft 5in, volition operation implicit 6ft 1in Lerena.

"I volition bash what I bash and halt him quickly," said Dubois, who has claimed 17 of his 18 wins wrong the distance.

"I've trained truly hard and person mislaid value truthful I volition beryllium coming successful with velocity and americium capable to determination now.

"I'm not taking him lightly but I'm 100% acceptable for him. I person to triumph and triumph successful style.

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"I privation to combat the guys with the belts next. I privation to amusement I'm a morganatic contender and I spot this arsenic the commencement of my vocation and I'm acceptable to go."

Lerena, warring successful the UK for the archetypal time, has won 28 of 29 contests and said: "Preparation has gone precise good, Daniel Dubois is simply a formidable opponent.

"When the level goes up, truthful does my level. I'm nary stepping stone, I volition springiness everything I've got to instrumentality what he's got.

"The infinitesimal is big, a large stadium, I'm not present to beryllium an opponent, I'm present to marque past for my country.

"I'm present to amusement the satellite I'm connected the large signifier and present to stay."