"Cracker" as Dalllian White knocksdown Chisora to book a fight with Anthony Joshua at Wembley.

Dillian Whyte wins London war with 11th-round knockout of Derek Chisora

"Cracker",He will now face Anthony Joshua at Wembley on 13 April,2019. 

It was asking a lot of Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora to take up where they left off here two years ago, but they did exactly that. They likely will not want to do this again – unless the money is right. The capacity crowd of 20,000 roared their appreciation and sympathy when Chisora rose from his brief slumber, and the fighters who for more than half an hour had been trying to disable each other’s senses, embraced, as we knew they would. At the end Chisora was ahead by a point on two cards, behind by one on the other – and a winner in the hearts of the crowd.

The prize wasn’t just the considerable one of a shot at Anthony Joshua’s three world belts at Wembley on 13 April; they fought, with every ounce of strength and passion, for what someone once memorably said of the Ali-Frazier Thrilla in Manila: the championship of each other. It was Finchley against Brixton, too, a tribal showdown that had the packed arena enthralled from start to finish.

Chisora, who was Dereck and “Dell Boy” when he lost a close 12-round street fight to his Brixton tormentor in 2016, tried hard to live up to his new RING name, “WAR”, but almost didn’t get past the first skirmish when Whyte sent electricity through his legs in the first round.

He admitted the obvious beforehand – “I’m no boxer, man; I just fight” – and so it transpired that he ate a string of jabs for a meagre dividend in round two, before belting Whyte around the ring in the third.

Hitting high, low but not too handsome, Chisora cashed in on a fitness regime like none he had endured to carry the action all the way up to the middle rounds. But the old boy’s legs and lungs started to ask him increasingly difficult questions as Whyte picked his punches; what had begun as a hurricane looked like being downgraded to a tropical storm.

Marcus McDonnell docked Chisora a point in the eighth for persistent fouling, although it was tough to distinguish the legal from the illegal in either direction. He took another for an elbow in the 11th. Neither penalty deterred him, but Whyte’s left was the decider.

Chisora is sitting in his chair in the corner. He seems to be OK. And interestingly the judges scores at the time of the knockout had him ahead, despite the points deductions. Two judges had him ahead 95-94, one had Whyte in front by the same score. 

Whyte speaks and abuses Joshua:

“I hurt him in the first round and I thought relax,” says Whyte. “I knew it would come. He kept on making the same mistake, bobbing and weaving. That was the money shot right there, I will always land it at some point. I’m a warrior, I want a scarp but I was pacing myself, I knew it was gonna come. I’m No 1baby, let’s go”

Then he points at Joshua and says: “I want that lanky piece of shit next”.

Joshua steps into the ring smiling. “Forget all that he says, she says Dillian,” he retorts. “If anyone deserves a a title shot it’s Dillian. Deontay Wilder is the target but if not it’s Dillian Whyte.” White may now face Anthony Joshua at Wembley on 13th.April,2019.