Monday, February 20th, 2012...5:34 pm
Better Get Used to the Contemptible Chisora
ICE…the Los Angeles Kings may be able to put together the best deal for Blue Jacket Rick Nash. If Columbus is determined, as is rumoured, to obtain a goaltender in any deal, then the Kings can offer Jonathan Bernier, maybe the best goalie in hockey currently not starting (with apologies to Tuukka Rask and Corey Schneider). The Kings are also willing to toss in young stud defenseman Jack Johnson and a draft pick and, really, who can top that package?…
TURN LEFT…Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch are the current favourites for this Sundays Daytona 500. Both are on offer at 10 to 1 in what is traditionally a wide open affair. Last year Trevor Bayne took first place while gifting punters with a reasonable 100 to 1 payoff…
PONIES…yesterdays San Vincent Stakes from Santa Anita featured a huge upset as heavy favoured Creative Cause, third in last years Breeders Cup Juvenile behind Hansen and Union Rags, sputtered home third. The heavily hyped runner had been pounded to 1-2 in a small four horse field. The race was only seven furlongs so it’s highly likely Creative Cause was not “set down”, and it’s still a long ways to Kentucky. But with Hansen proving so ineffective in his debut, and now this disappointment, one can’t help but wonder how Derby favourite Union Rags will fare as he gets his season underway in the Fountain of Youth Stakes this weekend. Rags has already lost his jockey with Javier Castellano opting for Todd Pletcher’s novice Algorithms instead…
…last years Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom was visually impressive winning an allowance race at Gulfstream on Saturday. The colt now takes an epic step up in class with aspirations of annexing the Dubai World Cup on March 31st…
PUG LIFE…so, let’s sum up Derek Chisora’s incredible journey en route to disgrace and ignominy;
1) beat your woman, get convicted of domestic abuse, bite an opponent in the ring 2) seldom train for fights, then raise a hue for not getting beaten too badly by some other fat bastard and parlay that into a title shot 3) slap the champ at a press conference 4) spit on the other champ while in the ring in Germany 5) fight, as Ginner laughably terms it, like “Homer Simpson”, plodding forward with little strategy, throwing wild punches that allowed Klitschko to sip coffee while awaiting their arrival 6) show no class after the fight when you are justifiably deemed to have come up short 7) start a brawl with another no-hoper at the post fight press conference, tactics made all the more alarming by your insistence you will “shoot” David Haye.
Okay, here’s the sad part; in boxing these tactics actually work and ensure one’s ability to get lucrative fights in the future. I’d rather never read or hear about Chisora ever again. But all the notoriety virtually guarantees him a series of fights against the likes of Haye, Fury and, in what could be England’s lowest heavyweight moment, maybe a big scrap with Audley Harrison.
Notoriety is gold in boxing. Unfortunately the crude and barbaric Chisora will be on our radar for years to come…
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