Deontay Wilder vs. Derek Chisora Live Winners and Losers, Results
Could 40-something friends turned competitive foes continue a final run at success in a heavyweight division dominated by younger adversaries?
That was the sitcom-like premise of Saturday's fight card in London, where ex-champ Deontay Wilder and long-time second banana Derek Chisora met in the final fight of a five-bout main show at O2 Arena.
Wilder, 40, held the WBC's share of the big-boy title from 2015 to 2020 before stoppage losses to Tyson Fury in the second and third fights of their trilogy.
He'd gone 2-2 since, losing a wide decision to ex-champ Joseph Parker and falling in five to fringe contender Zhilei Zhang in 2023 and 2024, respectively, but had been a TKO winner over Tyrrell Herndon in his most recent fight last summer in Kansas.
Meanwhile, Chisora, 42, beaten in two bids for the ultimate prize, had experienced an intermittent career renaissance since a TKO loss to Fury in 2022, defeating second-tier rivals Gerald Washington (UD 10), Joe Joyce (UD 10) and Otto Wallin (UD 12) in his one fight in each of the last three years.
B/R's combat team took in all the action and turned it around with a real-time list of the show's definitive winners and losers. Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the app comments.
Loser: Criteria to Continue
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Chisora promised beforehand that it'd be his last fight.
Wilder didn't make the same promise, but it's clear that he should have.
Though surely still popular, neither slugger presented much resembling elite skills, instead delivering sloppily explosive flurries followed by prolonged grappling matches that sent both men to the floor and kept referee Mark Bates perpetually involved.
"The two old warriors gave us a 12-round war," blow-by-blow man Adam Smith said, moments after Wilder was awarded a split-decision victory—earning 115-111 and 115-113 scores from two judges to offset a 115-112 tally from a dissenting judge.
A nostalgic Fight of the Year candidate? Sure.
A reason for either to continue? Not so much.
Chisora reaffirmed his decision to walk away in a long post-fight speech during which he was presented with a ceremonial belt commemorating 50 pro fights, but Wilder, who also fought for the 50th time, insisted he was back to a level he's not truly seen since Fury handed him first loss in 2020.
"Many people doubted me. They counted me out. They threw dirt on my name, but y'all was witness tonight to what power, glory and destiny is all about," he said, claiming he'd taken it easy down the stretch to ensure Chisora's safety. "I'm a king and I showed that tonight. I'm gonna get better and better each and every time."
Winner: Leveling Up
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Viddal Riley has battled the criticism for years, thanks to his training/promotional relationship with KSI, that he's more social media phenomenon than fighter.
He seemed particularly eager to dispatch the chatter on Saturday and took a huge step toward doing so with a virtuoso performance, yielding a wide decision over highly-ranked former world title challenger Mateusz Masternak in the co-main event slot.
Just 10 when Masternak turned pro in 2006, Riley won nearly every exchange and moment of every round against the now-38-year-old, sweeping the scorecards to win the European cruiserweight title and likely vault into the top five of the IBF's 200-pound rankings.
Masternak, TKO'd by then-WBO champ Chris Billam-Smith in 2023, was slotted fourth by the IBF entering the fight, three spots ahead of Riley, who'd arrived with 13 straight wins.
The IBF title was left vacant after champion Jai Opetaia was stripped in March.
"We've been watching a potential world champion down the line," Smith said. "There's real potential here. This was a coming-of-age performance."
Loser: Championship Consensus
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The title belt handed to Denzel Bentley had all the jewels and trinkets and his corner team lifted him to their shoulders and marched him around the ring as a world champion.
To what degree he's taken seriously, though, will remain up for debate.
The British favorite stopped Venezuelan tough guy Endry Saavedra in Round 7 of a match billed as an interim title bout between the WBO's top two contenders while the organization's 160-pound kingpin, Janibek Alimkhanuly, is sidelined by a PED suspension.
Alimkhanuly was stripped of his laurels by the IBF.
But, as of fight time, he remained atop the Puerto Rico-based WBO's rankings.
Neither Bentley nor Saavedra are ranked among the division's top 10 by The Ring or any of the other major sanctioning groups, but Bentley was defiant toward any suggestion that the word interim be included alongside Saturday's result.
"I'm a world champion. I don't care what anyone says," Bentley said. "The world champion doesn't even have a boxing license. He's the world champion that ain't even allowed to box for now. I've achieved my dream."
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Winner: Viral Violence
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There's nothing like a face-plant KO. Even if not too many saw it.
That's precisely what heavyweight Matty Harris delivered in the show's second bout when he jolted a still-cavernous arena with the counter right hand that sent Franklin Ignatius tumbling to the floor and yielded a viral-quality finish after just 20 seconds of the second round.
It was Harris' 10th win in 11 career bouts and fifth in a row since a lone loss in 2023 prompted a switch to trainer Peter Fury.
"He looks the part, he talks the part," analyst Ade Oladipo said. "He is the part."
The chatty pre-fight rivals worked their way through a busy first round before Harris came out in the second, eluded an Ignatius right and answered with the short, powerful shot that landed flush and reduced Ignatius to grasping vainly at his leg as he fell.
The stricken Brit rolled to his back but showed no intent to rise and prompted referee Sean McAvoy to step in before completing the count.
"The shot was tactically very good, only traveled about six inches," analyst Carl Frampton said. "Timing beats everything in this game."
Winner: Star Quality
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Whether Amir Anderson ends up a middleweight champion is up for debate.
But the 22-year-old from central New York is already carrying himself like one.
Anderson strolled to the ring with a live rapper for his card-opening bout with British vet Jordan Dujon and looked like a worthwhile prospect upon arrival, showing speed, range, punch selection and ultimately stamina while going deep for the first time.
He swept the first seven rounds on all three scorecards before registering his seventh consecutive stoppage in the eighth and final round, pinning Dujon in a corner and rattling him with a prolonged flurry until referee Rocky Israel stepped in at 2:19.
Anderson, who'd not gone past five rounds, got hit with an occasional counter shot but was never in peril and continued to press until he became just the second foe to stop Dujon.
"This seemed extravagant for a guy in his seventh fight, and it was," analyst Barry Jones said. "But he's a real talent."
Results
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Deontay Wilder def. Derek Chisora by split decision (115-111, 112-115, 115-113)
Viddal Riley def. Mateusz Masternak by unanimous decision (118-110, 118-110, 119-109)
Denzel Bentley def. Endry Saavedra by TKO, 1:38, Round 7
Matty Harris def. Franklin Ignatius by TKO, 0:20, Round 2
Amir Anderson def. Jordan Dujon by TKO, 2:19, Round 8
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