British heavyweight arch-rivals Tyson Fury and
Dereck Chisora have had their grudge match rescheduled for November 22 at
London's ExCel arena, it was announced Saturday.
The two Britons had been due to meet in a rematch in Manchester last month,
but that was postponed after Chisora fractured his hand.
"It's been a roller-coaster few weeks, but I'm delighted to say that the
fight is definitely on with Chisora and Fury ready to clash on Saturday 22nd
November at the ExCeL London," said Promoter Frank Warren.
"It was an extremely unfortunate set of circumstances that caused Chisora
to pull out with a fractured hand.
"Despite the setbacks, they were both determined to fight each other and I
believe that we could see a genuine old fashioned ring war between them."
Warren had been hoping to set the world title eliminator for October but
was troubled by a lack of suitable dates and venues, while also mindful of
giving Chisora's hand enough time to recover.
European champion Chisora, who lost on points to Fury when they met in
2011, said: "The important thing is we have a new date for the fight, it's on,
and Fury and I will finally give the fans what they want to see, a fight.
"What happened with my hand has happened and the timing of the injury was
terrible, it couldn't have happened at a worse time and of course Fury had
personal issues going on with him.
"I just want to fight Fury, get revenge, beat him good and proper, and move
on to fight Wladimir Klitschko for the world title."
Unbeaten Fury, who had been scheduled to fight Alexander Ustinov in
Manchester last month following Chisora's withdrawal but pulled out due to his
uncle Hughie being taken ill, said: "Chisora is now going to get a beating
twice as bad than the one that he was going to get for pulling out.
"All Chisora is to me is an obstacle and I've got to smash through him to
get where I want to be and that's fighting for the world title. He's messed me
around and now I'm going to make him pay. I'm happy for the fans who will get
to see me crush Chisora for the second and final time and send him into
retirement."
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