Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

I’LL KNOCK HIM FOR SEX

Chisora has been pacing the room like a caged animal since former champion David Haye put him on a ‘no nookie’ pre-fight routine

- BY CHRIS MCKENNA

DEREK CHISORA has been placed on a six-week sex ban to help him give Oleksandr Usyk a Halloween fright tonight.

The British heavyweigh­t takes on the former cruiserwei­ght king at Wembley Arena after launching a foul-mouthed rant at his opponent while covered in body paint at a crazy weigh-in yesterday (above).

Veteran Chisora, 36, had ‘ War’ written across his chest, as well as a Joker-like smile painted around his mouth, and a black hat and black gloves as he tried to rattle the Ukrainian superstar.

A fired-up Chisora was certainly talking the talk, as he said: “I would rather him knock me out, than me do nothing.

“Either I will knock him out or he will quit on his stool. That’s what we’re going for.”

Th e Br i t re mai n s a h u ge underdog, however.

But his manager David Haye has been trying everything to give his man a chance, including a bizarre routine that Haye would abide by in his career – one that has left Chisora pacing around his room like a caged animal in his Covidsecur­e bubble this week.

Two-weight world champion Haye said: “About 12 weeks ago, I said to him, ‘If you want to win this fight you need to do something you’ve never done before’.

“You need to eat the right food, you need to get X amount of hours of sleep, you need to do all these training sessions and you need to have one day off a week.

“And when it gets to six weeks you’re not going to be allowed to ejaculate before the fight. He said, ‘Ah, I don’t know about that’.

“I told him, ‘I need you in the ring knowing that you’ve done stuff that you’ve never done before, that you’ve sacrificed. Before the fight you need to be fully loaded in every department – the engine tank, your nut sack, everything needs to be full and ready to go’.

“I told him, ‘When is a lion most dangerous?’ When it hasn’t mated and it’s hungry!’ And when I see him pacing up and down I don’t know if he’s thinking about fighting or f*****g.”

So while most athletes use ice baths to help recover from gruelling sessions in the gym, Chisora needs them for another reason.

Chisora said: “Celibate is alright. I feel sorry for the priests. That is why I take the ice baths.”

Chisora may be pent up but just hours away from the bout he was still acting like a doting dad when his daughter Angelina was brought up in conversati­on.

His seven-year-old girl has never been interested in his career before but has watched a Sky documentar­y on repeat all this week.

“She has watched it 20 times since I left the house,” said Chisora. “She wakes up and watches it. She is seeing things she has never seen before. Her eyes are opened and she has realised who her dad is.

“Her mother said, ‘You’ve got a big fan at home now because she hasn’t stopped watching it’.

“Her mother says, ‘I don’t want to watch this anymore’, and she says back, ‘Don’t be jealous because you’re not on TV ’.

“She is probably going to watch the fight.”

Tonight Chisora will be up against one of the best pound-forpound fighters on the planet. “It’s going to get tough for him and me,” he said. “It’s not one-way traffic.”

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