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Chisora taunts Klitschko with 'boring' jibe

ESPN staff
December 6, 2010
Dereck Chisora gave away plenty of height at the pre-fight weigh-in with Wladimir Klitschko © PA Photos
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Dereck Chisora has welcomed Wladimir Klitschko's promise to come looking for an early night in Saturday's heavyweight title fight, telling the Ukrainian "you know where to find me".

Chisora, unbeaten in 14 professional fights, competes for the WBO & IBF championships this weekend, taking on a man who has not lost in six years. Klitschko is an overwhelming favourite in Germany, but he became surprisingly animated at the pre-fight press conference.

Klitschko, who has a four-inch height advantage over the challenger, promised that he will not hide behind his jab, as he has been prone to doing in the past, promising to leap all over Chisora from the opening bell. The Briton sees Klitschko's emotional appearance as a good thing for his own camp.

"That's good news for us," Chisora said on Sky Sports News. "I'm not going to give him that edge of the back foot. He knows where to find me.

"He's in good condition, I won't lie, but he won't be prepared to go where I'm prepared to go. We don't do boring where I come from. It's going to be hard, but I'm going to get in there."

Chisora has questioned the validity of Klitschko's previous title defences, claiming the champion has been taking the easy option - ducking the likes of David Haye, but he insists he has no intention to taunt Klitschko, claiming he is solely dealing in fact.

"I'm not getting the guy angry," he explained. "If people ask me a question, I give them the right answer. Getting him angry means insulting him, doing everything in the book, but I didn't do that."

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