The EPIX Heavyweight Extravaganza kicks off on This Saturday! February 18, beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT, with Klitschko vs. Chisroa, live from Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany. On Saturday, February 25 (4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT), undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16 KOs), of Russia, will defend his title against world cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25 KOs), of Berlin, Germany, in the Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. The grand finale will take place on Saturday, March 3 (Time TBD) in the ESPIRIT Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, and will feature unified champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KOs), of Kiev, Ukraine, defending his World Boxing Organization (WBO), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and WBA super heavyweight crowns against two-time world cruiserweight champion Jean Marc Mormeck (36-4, 22 KOs), of Pantin, France.
Event Info:
Status: Live
Competition: Boxing(12 Rounds - Heavyweight Division (for WBC title))
Date : Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2012
Kick Off: 21.00 pm GMT
Venue: Munich, Germany
Dereck Chisora is as British as red phone booth, black taxis and those old yellow-and-green-flag parking meters.
How can this be true of someone born in Zimbabwe who did not come to live in London until he was 16? Because he has collected all those items of our national memorabilia… and then some.
Del Boy, as this devotee of Only Fools And Horses nicknames himself, drives a vintage Robin Reliant, 'just loves' a frame hung on his wall which contains original £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes and is in the market for a traditional pillar box.
Snow chance? Dereck Chisora has fun on a cold Thursday morning in Munich
Snow chance? Dereck Chisora has fun on a cold Thursday morning in Munich
As a curator of all things historic and symbolic of his adoptive country, Chisora is also about to buy an old London double-decker bus. Exactly what his neighbours will think of him setting it up as a playroom for his kids will be interesting to discover.
'Oh well,' he says. 'I am the only black man living in Hampstead.' Not statistically true and his home is more urban Finchley than Garden Suburb but we know what he means.
It is his contrary – and sometimes truculent - nature which fills his 28-year-old heart with hope as he goes into a fight in Germany this Saturday night which few outside his immediate circle expect him to win.
Chisora is up against Vitali Klitschko, the older but tougher of the two giant Ukrainian brothers who hold all the world heavyweight titles between them.
'I ain't scared like David Haye,' he says, in blunt reference to his fellow Londoner's depressing display against the younger Klitschko sibling, Wladimir, last year. 'Eight is my lucky number and that's the round in which I'm going to knock out Vitali.'
Shape of his life: Chisora at an open training session in Munich on Wednesday
Shape of his life: Chisora at an open training session in Munich on Wednesday
If he pulls off that upset he will not only win the WBC heavyweight championship but begin banking enough money to buy a whole fleet of London cabs, which is another of his ambitions.
It will also help put further behind him his conviction for assaulting a girlfriend after he apparently found messages from another man on her mobile phone. He fulfilled his community service and the terms of probation and he was lucky to a avoid a prison sentence.
That was not his first brush with the law following a much bigger escape - the one from Robert Mugabe's oppressed Zimbabwe when he followed his mother to London.
Chisora, grateful that the authorities here gave him the benefit of the doubt over some petty offences, decided to channel his anger into boxing at the Finchley gym. He tried to walk out when hurt in his first sparring session 'but a trainer told me this was boxing and to get back in there so I did. And look at me now.'
Packs a punch: The Zimbabwean-born British heavyweight with his coach Don Charles (left)
Packs a punch: The Zimbabwean-born British heavyweight with his coach Don Charles (left)
We are looking at someone who says: 'I'm really a nice guy even if I can be a rude person at times.'
We are looking at an unlikely, 17-fight novice challenger for a world title who has lost two of his last three bouts but who says: 'I am ready to give this Klitschko a nightmare. He's 40 and that's 12 years older than me. He won't be able to keep up with the pace I'm going to set. Remember the number – Lucky Eight. That's when Michael Buffer (the ring announcer famous for his Let's Get Ready To Rumble introduction) will proclaim me as, from London, England, the new heavyweight champion of the world.'
We are looking at a man nostalgic for his home city of Harare but who will wear our Union flag into the ring at Munich's Olympiahalle and who says: 'You always miss where you grow up, I know all Africa will be cheering for me and I still speak Shona. But I'm a Londoner now.' That and a proud British citizen who promises not to let down this country or himself ever again.
Fearsome opponent: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko awaits Chisora on Saturday
Fearsome opponent: WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko awaits Chisora on Saturday
The first of those two defeats occurred when he turned up out of shape to face Tyson Fury and promptly lost his British and Commonwealth titles. Never again, he swore.
Good as his word, Chisora was fighting fit when he challenged Finnish heavyweight prospect Robert Helenius for the European championship in Helsinki. This was our reformed ex-adolescent's turn to find out what it is like to be robbed, as Helenius benefited from a blatant home-town decision.
Now he is 'fitter than ever' and even fuller of himself: 'The Klitschkos are good but boring. Most people in the world want me to end their tedious reign and I'm going to do it with my magical right hand.'
Fighting talk: Chisora predicts he will knock out Klitschko in the eighth round
Fighting talk: Chisora predicts he will knock out Klitschko in the eighth round
If so, Del Boy will add the most memorable piece of all to his curious collection of antiques - the old green and gold WBC belt previously worn not only by Vitali Klitschko but Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis among a myriad of legends in heavyweight history.
Wish him luck. Eight times over.
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