The last thing you’d want to call Dereck Chisora – to his face anyway – is a mummy’s boy. Yet his mother Viola has played as crucial a role in her boy’s career.
Del Boy goes into the ring at London’s sold-out ExCel on Saturday night against heavyweight challenger Tyson Fury. Sitting quietly at ringside will be Viola, quietly praying he is still taking the advice she gave him in a fearful ear-bashing just over a year ago.
It came after he had beaten little-known Hector Alfredo Avila in his first fight after being stopped by David Haye. I called him to my office so I could read him the riot act because he had been poor against Avila. Mum and trainer Don Charles came too. I told him he looked like a load of blubber. I knew he’d been training in the gym and then going home, having a pie or stuffing himself with things like Jaffa Cakes.
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Del Boy goes into the ring at London’s sold-out ExCel on Saturday night against heavyweight challenger Tyson Fury. Sitting quietly at ringside will be Viola, quietly praying he is still taking the advice she gave him in a fearful ear-bashing just over a year ago.
It came after he had beaten little-known Hector Alfredo Avila in his first fight after being stopped by David Haye. I called him to my office so I could read him the riot act because he had been poor against Avila. Mum and trainer Don Charles came too. I told him he looked like a load of blubber. I knew he’d been training in the gym and then going home, having a pie or stuffing himself with things like Jaffa Cakes.
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