Klitschko vs Chisora Predictions: Vitali Win Will Damage Heavyweight Prestige

For the past several years, boxing's heavyweight division has been a punchline among fans of the sport. That will continue as Vitali Klitschko will make easy work of the overmatched Dereck Chisora on Saturday.

Ever since the likes of Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield vacated the heavyweight scene, the division has been an absolute joke. For the most part, Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko have completely dominated the weight class with very few slip-ups during that time.

Vitali is the current WBC Heavyweight Champion, and despite the fact that he holds political office in Ukraine, he continues to have no problem defending his title. There is a fundamental lack of talent in the heavyweight division right now. While Klitschko is a great fighter, he has barely been challenged over the course of his 16-year career.

For many years, the heavyweight division was the main spectacle in boxing. Most of the great feuds in boxing history stemmed from the heavyweight class, but there honestly hasn't been a compelling one since Tyson and Holyfield.

That lack of big names and intriguing rivalries has turned the division into perhaps the worst in boxing.

The division may already be irreparable, but the only way to move in the right direction is if Chisora pulls off the upset. While Chisora has a bad attitude and can be difficult to pull for, he is precisely the type of character that the weight class needs. He showed that he can make things interesting by slapping Klitschko across the face at the weigh-in.

While dominant fighters in other divisions like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao tend to captivate the fans, Klitschko hasn't managed to do the same. The likely reason for that is that he simply isn't exciting. Klitschko does have a knockout rate of nearly 90 percent, but he has largely faced tomato cans.

Chisora may very well be another in the long line of victims for Klitschko, but he has a chance to pull the heavyweight division out from the doldrums. As much as boxing fans will likely be rooting for Chisora, his track record doesn't suggest that he is a legitimate threat to Klitschko.

He is 12 years younger than Klitschko, but he also gives up seven inches in height, so Klitschko figures to easily neutralize him with his jab. Chisora has also lost two of his past three fights to boxers far less accomplished than Klitschko in Robert Helenius and Tyson Fury.

Something big needs to happen in order to get people talking about the heavyweight division again, and the result that could make that happen is a Chisora upset. From the looks of it, though, Chisora will be like many before him and succumb to Klitschko while the heavyweight division continues its downward spiral.