Joe Joyce can be combating the warhorse Dereck Chisora this summer time in a heavyweight conflict on July twenty seventh on the O2 Area in London, England. Watch the occasion stay on ESPN+ and TNT Sports activities in UK. The occasion will start at 7 p.m. UK / 2 p.m. ET with the ringwalks for Joyce vs. Chisora scheduled for 10 p.m. UK / 5 p.m. ET.
The poster for the Joyce vs. Chisora battle has the tagline, ‘Go Massive or Go Residence.’ What a label.
Joyce Deserves Higher
The 2016 Olympic silver medalist Joyce (16-2, 15 KOs) deserves higher than this, doesn’t he? Joyce has solely misplaced to Zhilei Zhang, and that man arguably beat Filip Hrgovic.
Joyce already had a confidence booster in his final battle in opposition to Kash Ali final March, which he received by a tenth-round knockout. Why is he being fed the journeyman-esque Chisora? The Juggernaut doesn’t want this washed-up has-been.
Joyce turns 39 in September and might’t afford to speculate a 12 months or two in tune-ups to regain his confidence after his back-to-back losses to Zhang.
The Juggernaut Joye already acquired a tune-up in opposition to Kash, so ideally, Joyce ought to be thrown again into the deep waters in opposition to top-tier heavyweights somewhat than fed one other Hors d’œuvre by combating the shop-worn, over-the-hill 40-year-old Chisora (34-13, 23 KOs).
Chisora: The Million-Greenback Journeyman?
Regardless of being a journeyman by most of his profession, ‘Conflict’ Chisora has made an enormous fortune, with a internet value estimated at $15 million, which is difficult to consider provided that his greatest win got here in opposition to 38-year-old Carlos Takam.
Tyson Fury has helped Chisora, combating him 3 times for no obvious purpose aside from to get sure-thing wins.
Chisora has misplaced 4 out of his final six fights and is coming off of a win over 42-year-old Gerald Washington. I had Chisora shedding to 41-year-old Kubrat Pulev of their battle in London in 2022, however he was given a really questionable 12-round cut up choice win. If you happen to rely that as a loss for Chisora, he’s misplaced 5 out of his final six fights.
I assume the Brits can be chomping on the bit to see Joyce and Chisora combine it up, nevertheless it’s DOA so far as the remainder of the world. All I can say is poor Joyce. What’s left of his profession is being wasted on combating horrible opposition.
Joyce’s Redemption: A Want Checklist of Worthy Opponents
Joyce ought to be combating considered one of these contenders to climb his approach again to the highest so he could make some coin:
Fabio Wardley
Agit Kabayel
Frank Sanchez
Richard Torrez Jr.
Bakhodir Jalolov
Occasion Recap:
- Date: Saturday, July 27
- Begin Time: 2:00 PM EDT (That’s 7:00 PM for the Brits)
- Streaming: Dwell on ESPN+ , stay on TNT Sports activities
- Venue: The O2, London
Joyce Chisora battle card
- Joe Joyce vs. Derek Chisora; Heavyweight
- Dennis McCann vs. Ionut Baluta; For McCann’s European tremendous bantamweight title
- Ryan Garner vs. Archie Sharp; Tremendous featherweight
- Raven Chapman vs. Yohana Sarabia; Girls’s featherweight
- Moses Itauma vs. Mariusz Wach; Heavyweight
- Sean Noakes vs. Inder Bassi; Welterweight
- Royston Barney-Smith vs. Brian Barajas; Tremendous featherweight
- Umar Khan vs. TBA; Featherweight
- Aadam Hamed vs. TBA; Tremendous light-weight
- Jermaine Dhliwayo vs. Engel Gomez; Light-weight
