Dereck Chisora

Dereck Chisora
Chisora (right) with Alex Reid
Statistics
Nickname(s)	Del Boy
Rated at	Heavyweight
Height	6 ft 1 1⁄2 in (187 cm)
Reach	74 in (188 cm)
Nationality	British
Born	(1983-12-29) 29 December 1983 (age 33) Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	33
Wins	26
Wins by KO	18
Losses	7

Dereck Chisora (born 29 December 1983) is a British professional boxer. He held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2010 to 2011; the European heavyweight title from 2013 to 2014; and has challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title, in 2012.

Chisora was born in Mbare, a suburb of the Zimbabwean capital Harare. As a teenager he attended Churchill School. Chisora and his family moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 and lived in Finchley, London.

Chisora turned professional on 17 February 2007, scoring a second round TKO against István Kecskés. After winning three more fights (all by decision), he came up against the toughest test of his career against fellow rising British heavyweight prospect, Sam Sexton. Chisora won the fight by stopping Sexton in the final 30 seconds of the final round. He moved on from the win over Sexton by beating Shawn Mclean, an American, at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, and then stopped the experienced Lee Swaby in 3 rounds at the York Hall. Chisora finished the year with a December victory over Neil Simpson at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London's Docklands leaving him with an 8–0 record at the end of his second year as a professional.

Chisora was suspended for four months for biting Paul Butlin during the fifth round of their 22 May 2009 contest at the York Hall in Bethnal Green. The incident was missed by the referee but TV replays proved conclusive and as a result Chisora missed out on his fight for a British title against Danny Williams. He was fined £2,500.