Reporters’ star ratings for main events and undercards are based on in-ring entertainment, competitiveness and whether overall expectation was met
TOTTENHAM
DECEMBER 3
MAIN EVENT
UNDERCARD
ATMOSPHERE
AS THE huge crowd went off into the winter night in North London, how many spared a thought for Derek Chisora? They had gone to see the Tyson Fury show, the premier heavyweight of his era, possibly the greatest British big man of them all. But what about his opponent?
Fury’s 10-round victory in defence of his WBC heavyweight title will have boosted his bank balance rather than his legacy as he beat a man he had twice comprehensively defeated before. Indeed, he managed the win only nine seconds quicker than he had when they last met eight years ago.
It was a match very much in the category marked ‘it is what it is’. Fury needed a fight. He, and his promoters, had tried to make a fight for this night against Anthony Joshua, which would have been the biggest in British boxing history.
But, when that fell through, what to do, with a fight with Oleksandr Usyk for the ‘undisputed’ world heavyweight title a matter
