Fury pummels Chisora in 10th-rd TKO win to retain heavyweight title

Then forcefully calls out Usyk for undisputed showdown in wild scene

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Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora have been friends for years but Fury sure didn’t treat his British countryman like one when the bell rang.

Fury laid a massively one-sided beating on Chisora in a dominating 10th-round knockout victory to retain the lineal and WBC heavyweight titles on Saturday before a crowd of some 60,000 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

It was Fury’s third win against Chisora and even more dominant than the previous one-sided fights and set Fury up for a likely undisputed championship fight with Oleksandr Usyk in the spring.

Fury easily defeated Chisora by decision in 2011 and by 10th-round corner retirement in the 2014 rematch. When Fury was unable to line up Usyk, who elected to take the rest of 2022 off after his August rematch win over Anthony Joshua, and then was unable to finalize a fight against Joshua, Fury decided to give his old pal Chisora the payday and stay busy.

So, they met in frigid weather outdoors — temperature in the mid-30s with 17 mph winds — and Fury issued a beat down as Usyk watched from ringside.

From the outset, it was all Fury, who landed almost at will at times but could never get Chisora off his feet. But Fury also never got hit with a single telling blow.

They had promised to come out guns blazing in the first round and deliver an unforgettable round, but they didn’t do anything of the sort. Chisora was aggressive and Fury returned fire but there were no serious fireworks then or in the remainder of the fight because it was all one-way Fury traffic.