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"I'M absolutely gutted," said Dean
Harrison while admitting he had
reached the end of his boxing
career at the age of 28. He had
hoped to win Prizefighter at the
weekend and mount a challenge for
Colin Lynes' British welterweight
title but he was halted in the first
round by John Watson.
"When I'm sparring I'm
looking brilliant but It's been
such a struggle to make lightwelterweight,"
he revealed. "I had
to lose 10 l/2lbs in a week and It's
taken everything out of me. Now
I'm getting stopped by people who
are not punchers. The shot that
dropped me against [John] Watson
was not hard but these days I'm
getting clipped and going straight
over, My legs have gone."

AMIR KHAN and Timothy Bradley
are the latest fighters to emerge
from the recent round of miserable
Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather
negotiations with smiles on their faces.
A week after Miguel Cotto was confirmed
as Floyd's May 5 dance partner, Bradley
secured a June g Las Vegas date with
Manny. And with the
most lucrative hands
in boxing full, Lamont
Peterson has granted
Khan the rematch the
Englishman has craved
since December. It will
take place on May 19 at
Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay.

EX-INTERNATIONAL amateur
boxer Scott Cardie has turned
professional with Matchroom and
will make his paid debut on March
17 in Sheffield on the undercard of
the Kell Brook-Matthew Hatton bill
in Sheffield.
"It's a big event," said Scott.
"I'm after exposure and regular
dates." He trains at Joe Gallagher's
gym, explaining, "I could tell how
dedicated he was. He always thinks
about the boys first. It made me
think straightaway this could be
good for me."

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T A L E ?!iE T A P E
"You know what," he snapped back
then. "I don't care. WLadimir can fight
Haye for all I care. It means nothing to
me. I'm not bothered."
Chisora, clearly bothered, didn't fight
until July when he eventually put his
British and Commonwealth titles on
the line against Tyson Fury. Weighing
in at a cumbersome i8st gibs, the unfit
champion was reduced to fighting in
desperate spurts.
"He kept breaking down in training,"
recalled his coach, Don Charles. "All the
signs were there and I wanted to pull him
out. But him being stubborn he wouldn't
let me. 'I'll beat this punk' were his words
and I was guilty of complacency too.
I knew he wasn't l O O per cent but still
thought he'd beat Tyson Fury. We were
wrong and we came unstuck."
After the points loss, hefficked the chip
off his shoulder and started to grow up.
Moods were replaced by a fiery desire to
put things right. He admitted he deserved
to lose, went back to the gym and shifted
some pounds.
"I'm only two fights away from
getting back to where I was," he told
me in October. "And that's a world title
fight with one of the Klitschkos." It all
seemed as wildly optimistic as his hero
Derek Trotter's perennial predictions of
becoming a millionaire.
A six-round decision over journeyman
Remigijus Ziausys revealed a lighter
fighter but he was still considered a huge
underdog when he accepted a December
Helsinki scrap with Robert Helenius.
The Finnish hero had dispatched
Lamon Brewster, Siarhei Liakhovich and
Samuel Peter on his way to building a
gleaming i6-0 record but he had not met
a decent foe who could claim to be at his
peak. Bonjour, "Del Boy".
Chisora was exceptional, exposing
the 6ft 7ins Helenius' title credentials by
blending intelligent movement, accurate
punching and a hectic
workrate. At the end
of 12 rounds the
Englishman appeared
a clear winner only to
be declared a splitdecision
loser in one of
the most controversial
decisions in recent
years. Following such
horrendous luck, or whatever you wish to
label the diabolical verdict, one may have
expected Chisora to revert to the sulking
brute of before.
"It's such a shame after everything I
put into that fight," Chisora sighed the
morning after his 'loss' before whispering
1 now know
I don't have
that much
power'
defiantly, "Everybody knows I won the
fight. I'll be back, I'm telling you now.
I want to fight Vitali, that's the fight I
want."
And as if by magic, here we are,
days away from the fight he craved,
galvanised by lessons to take to Munich's
Olympiahalle. The
28-year-old knows he
can thrive on hostile
terrain. He knows he
can scale mountainous
chins but is now aware
they will not always
crumble. He knows
he has the ability to
compete, and win, at
world class but what he doesn't know,
of course, is what it's like to fight Vitali
Klitschko.
"You think you're quicker than him,
you think you're going to be able to hit
him easily because his hands are always
swaying down by his side," explained
FOCUS: Vitali
(above) and Dereck
insist nothing has
been left to chance
: DANNY
WILLIAMS
I give Oereck no
chance. At this
stage Klitschko
Is leagues above
the heavyweight
division and
i think he'll
slowly beat
Chisora up.
Dereck is a
competent
fighter who
genuinely thinks
he can win but
that's how it can
look l>efore you
get in the ring
with Klitschko.
Vou think you
can beat him and
he does so many
little things that
knock you out
of your stride.
Dereck does
have youth on
his side and
we can hope
that Vitali gets
pid overnight,
but I can't see
it - Ktitschko to
win, somewhere
between the
sixth and eighth
round.

WHO is the most famous boxer in Italy?
European champion Leonard Bundu?
Recent world title challengers Devis
Boschiero and Brunet Zamora? The
seemingly undying Branco brothers?
Forget it. And people who say, "There's
that one who did well in the Olympics,"
are not referring to the monolithic Roberto
Cammarelle who in Beijing won Italy's first
Olympic boxing gold since the late Giovanni
Parisi. They would be talking about
amateur heavyweight Clemente Russo,
Olympic silver medallist. World amateur
champion in 2007 and reigning World
Series of Boxing heavyweight champion.
It's some achievement for an amateur,
and on honours to date not even the
country's best, to be the only boxer who
has crossed over into public consciousness.