Whyte eyes Joshua after Chisora win
AUCKLAND: Joseph Parker was yesterday dealt a blow just two days before Christmas.
The New Zealand heavyweight called out British boxer Dillian Whyte on social media on Saturday, saying the pair had unfinished business after fighting earlier this year.
However, Whyte appears keen to move on to bigger things after his 11thround knockout of Brit Dereck Chisora yesterday. The win puts Whyte in line for a lucrative fight with unbeaten threebelt heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
Whyte capped a brilliant year with a third victory and second triumph over Chisora in a pulsating event at London’s O2 Arena.
This contest was slightly shorter but no less brutal than their first war over 12 rounds in December 2016.
Astute and aware from first to last, Whyte finished this second war with a left hook which left Chisora on his back from the second it landed.
Whyte immediately called out Joshua afterwards for a brawl at Wembley Stadium in April but there was no clear answer from Joshua at ringside, or both fighters’ promoter, Eddie Hearn.
When Chisora was knocked out, he was ahead on two of the judges’ cards.
But in that 11th round, just a minute before the chilling left hook denouement, referee Marcus McDonnell had punished Chisora with a point deduction for an upward chopping elbow, as Whyte leaned his full bodyweight on him.
It was the second point deduction after one in the eighth round, that time for a low blow. He had been warned earlier in the round. — NZME