Despite inflation and the high cost of tickets in England for the Tyson Fury vs Derek Chisora WBC heavyweight title fight, and the main supporting bout for the WBA heavyweight title between England’s Daniel Dubois and South Africa’s Kevin Lerena, on Saturday 3 December at the 60 000-seater Tottenham Football Ground in London, tickets are in solid supply and still in demand.
The tournament will be shown live on SuperSport.
The cost of tickets range between £64.95 (R764.50) and £764.50 (R15 663.69).
THIRD MATCHUP BETWEEN FURY AND CHISORA
When the third matchup between the 34-year-old Fury (32-0-1; 23) and 38-year-old Chisora (33-12; 23) was first announced, there was much controversy in the media.
On 23 July 2011, Chisora lost on a unanimous decision to Fury and in their second fight on 29 November 2014, he lost on a 10th-round retirement.
However, Chisora is a tough customer and gave the current WBA, WBO, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Alexandr Usyk a challenging fight.
One betting site has Tyson Fury at 1/33 to win.
WILL LERENA BE SA’S FOURTH WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION?
South Africa has an illustrious history in heavyweight boxing, with Gerrie Coetzee (WBA), Fransie Botha (IBF) and Corrie Sanders (WBO) winning versions of the heavyweight title.
In the main supporting bout for Fury versus Chisora, South Africa’s top heavyweight contender, the 30-year-old Kevin Lerena (28-1; 14), who has won his six fights in the premier division in style and is listed at No 12 by the World Boxing Association, challenges 25-year-old Daniel Dubois (18-1; 17) from Greenwich, England for the WBA regular heavyweight title.
Dubois won the WBA belt on 11 June 2022 with a fourth-round knockout win against Trevor Bryan (22-0).
The only loss on Dubois’ record came against Joe Joyce, who stopped him in the 10th round after he suffered a fractured eye socket. However, before the stoppage, his face was already marked up.
Since the loss to Joyce, Dubois has scored wins over Bogdan Dinu (ko 2), Joe Cusumano (tko 1) and the win over Bryan, none of which can be considered world beaters.
Dubois is the bigger man with a height of 196cm and a reach of 198cm against Lerena's height of 185cm and reach of 188cm.
Most of the British critics are depicting an easy win for Dubois, but they possibly have not taken into account that Dubois could be troubled by the southpaw stance of Lerena and in the history of the heavyweight division, it is not always the bigger man who wins.
There is no doubt that Lerena will be in excellent condition and could surprise his more fancied opponent.
Looking through the history of world heavyweight boxing, there have been a number of so-called small heavyweights who have won world titles.