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Chisora free to fight Klitschko after avoiding jail term

ESPN staff
November 10, 2010
Dereck Chisora fights Wladimir Klitschko on December 11 © Getty Images
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Dereck Chisora is free to take on Wladimir Klitschko on December 11 - despite being found guilty of submitting his former girlfriend to a "humiliating" assault.

The British and Commonwealth champion, who will pick up a world title if he causes a shock by beating Klitschko, was given a 12 week prison sentence suspended for two years.

Had Chisora been slapped with an immediate jail term, he would have been unable to take on the Ukrainian in Germany.

Passing sentence, District Judge Quentin Purdy said: "Your behaviour on May 28 was disgraceful and downright humiliating. You used violence on this young lady and then to heap ignominy on her you turned her over and slapped her on the bottom repeatedly."

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