A LITTLE RESPECT
NOBODY gives a f**k about the little guys anymore.”
That’s the view of heavyweight pay-perview B-side Derek Chisora, someone who two years ago ridiculed the idea of a super-lightweight unification fight between Josh Taylor and Regis Prograis being placed higher on a bill than his own nontitle heavyweight fight against Joseph Parker. That decision, the correct one, led to Chisora sulking at a press conference, demanding either headline status or more money, and then going on to explain: “I’m not going to sell out the O2 [Arena] for those guys to be the main event. I’m not going to be chief support to these guys. These guys wouldn’t sell [Sky Sports] Box Office by themselves, so f**k that. You want to put these little guys that nobody knows about on my show and try to mug me off. Nobody gives a f**k about little guys anymore. They only give a f**k about the heavyweight game and the big guys in the top 10.”
The latest in a long line of Chisora outbursts, it was, for starters, typically Chisora; a stunt fuelled as much by sheer greed as any supposed moral indignation. It was also petulant
