Dereck Chisora claims 'boxing is dead' and needs characters
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Dereck Chisora says that boxing is "dead" and personalities like his will get the sport greater attention.
Earlier in March, the 29-year-old was given a British Boxing Board of Control licence, a year after he had it removed following a brawl with David Haye.
But the heavyweight maintains he has no concerns about negative perceptions of him in the sport.
"Boxing is dead and you need people like me to bring it back up," Chisora told 5 live Boxing.
"Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don't mind."
Chisora was banned by the World Boxing Council after the fracas with Haye but his subsequent fight against his fellow Briton, which Chisora lost in the fifth round, was sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
The Londonder, who has undertaken anger management classes, is set to fight Ondrej Pala on 20 April and is targeting a fight with David Price later this year.
He added: "I don't mind going to Liverpool in the summer time for a big fight against David Price. I did take [anger classes] but I've kind of stopped now. We'll see one day if it's worked."
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Hearns, Leonard, Tyson, etc, etc.
Thugs have never been a draw.
It has been said recently that pound-for-pound, the money invested in the Olympic boxing team yielded more medals than any other sport at London 2012. Am and pro, we're doing well.
Sean Lock has a great personality, not sure he would do much for boxing though.
Also I think that Prizefighter, for the same reasons, is a good format. I liken it to T20 cricket. I know quite a few people who have been drawn back into boxing via this tournament.
The last big fight I can remember was pacman v Marquez 4, which had everything what you want.
The only other I felt a good concept came by was the super 6 for SM, which froch did well and fought top tied fighters.
i don't like Haye - i really don't like him
but he is in the top 10 heavyweights in the world, top 5 in fact.
Used to be you needed a knockout to win in Italy. Now you need a KO to win in the UK. Refs are as bad as promoters with this.
Titles - British promoters just make them up. Remember when Manchester had three "world champions"? It's even worse today with a made-up European title plus silver, intercontinental, belts etc.,
Complete farce.
Somebody with the charisma and skills of an ali is desperately needed, the only fight i want to see is fury v price.... What does that say!