{"id":17317,"date":"2011-11-25T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2011-11-25T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:59:29","slug":"dereck-chisora-fighting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17317","title":{"rendered":"Dereck Chisora: FIGHTING WORDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dereck Chisora (15-1, 9 KOs) and WBA\/WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Robert Helenius (16-0, 11 KOs) will collide for the vacant European Heavyweight Title in Helsinki on December 3. Boxing-online.com has caught up with the 27-year-old British fighter who is convinced he will knock out \u201cThe Nordic Nightmare\u201d in front of his Finnish fans. Dereck, why will you leave the ring as the winner on December 3? \u201cBecause I\u2019m back to my best. Nobody will beat me when I\u2019m at my best.\u201d <\/p>\n

What do you think about fighting in front of 12,000 wild Finnish fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo worries at all. The more the better, the crowd against me will really spur me on to win. I\u2019ll be a bigger hit in Finland than Nokia!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0You said in an interview with the Finnish press that you plan \u201cto make love to Helenius\u201d in the ring. What do you mean by that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTake that how you like it, I\u2019ll make him mine on December 3.\u201d What makes you so confident of success? \u201cI\u2019ve got to win or I have nowhere to go.<\/p>\n

Everything is on the line in this fight so I have to win to continue in my career and get a world title fight.\u201d What are Helenius\u00b4 weaknesses?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a good strong fighter and I\u2019m looking forward to testing myself against him. I know whenever I hit someone clean they will go. So I look forward to seeing how his chin holds up.\u201d Helenius has knocked out three former world champions.<\/p>\n

Are you scared of his punching power? \u201cAll heavyweights can bang, we\u2019re big men, but its if you can take it and fire back. I\u2019ll be in front of him all night long throwing bombs.\u201d What do you think of Helenius\u00b4 personality?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know the guy, I\u2019ll shake his hand after the fight. It\u2019s all business in the ring, I don\u2019t hate him, it\u2019s just business to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0What about the Klitschkos? You were ready to fight Wladimir when he pulled out due to injury. Are they ducking you? Would you still like to fight him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI want the brothers and, yes, they are ducking me. I\u2019ve got to beat Helenius and get the European title so I can be in a position to fight Wlad or Vitali.\u201d Is Helenius your stepping stone to Klitschko? \u201cI look at him more as an obstacle in the road and he\u2019s got to be moved out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Why will you be better than in the Fury fight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I\u2019ve got the hunger back and I\u2019m ready to do some damage. I\u2019m training hard for this fight because I let myself down against Fury, I can beat Fury, I beat myself on that night.\u201d Finally, a message to the Finnish fans? \u201c I\u2019m sorry, but your boy is going down . But he\u2019ll come back, just not while I\u2019m on the scene!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dereck Chisora (15-1, 9 KOs) and WBA\/WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Robert Helenius (16-0, 11 KOs) will collide for the vacant European Heavyweight Title in Helsinki on December 3. Boxing-online.com has caught up with the 27-year-old British fighter who is convinced he will knock out \u201cThe Nordic Nightmare\u201d in front of his Finnish fans. Dereck, why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,2155],"class_list":["post-17317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-dereck-chisora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17317"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}