Williams aims to end career on a high

[Faulks]

Danny Williams has confirmed that his British heavyweight title defence against Derek Chisora at Upton Park on Saturday week (May 15) will be his last fight. Williams was originally set to meet Commonwealth champion Sam Sexton on Frank Warren’s open air show but Sexton withdrew from their duel title showdown last week to remain at the hospital bedside of his seriously ill mother. Kevin Mitchell’s WBO interim lightweight title matchup with Aussie banger Michael Katsidis tops the bill.

 

Williams was supposed to fight Chisora in February at Wembley Arena when Sexton pulled out of their previously scheduled clash because of a hand injury, but claimed he couldn't get himself in the right frame of mind to face the unbeaten ‘Del Boy’.

 

“When you’ve got your mind focused on a certain opponent and then someone else comes in, it completely throws you out for a few days. I was so hungry to fight Sexton because my goal was to become a three-time Commonwealth champion so when Sexton pulled out again it did affect me big,” explained Williams to BoxRec News.

 

“I pulled out from fighting Chisora in February because I went down with a cold. Also on the week I withdrew from the fight I was actually arrested by the police while I was out driving my car. The only time I’ve ever had any dealings with the police before is when I was on jury service.”

 

“In the end, my wife had to come down to the station with the correct documentation to prove that it was infact my car but they kept me locked up for five hours. Due to the stress of this that was another reason why I pulled out,” reiterated Williams when questioned over his desire to tackle the unbeaten Chisora.

 

Perhaps ominously for Williams, the 12-0 (7) Chisora is the only man to have defeated Sexton after he stopped the Norwich man in six rounds in June 2008.

 

“I thought when Chisora first turned pro he was absolutely useless but he’s improved a lot since then and he looks quite good now. Although he has beaten Sexton I personally believe that Sexton has improved more since then. Chisora looks very fit and physically strong. It’s hard to say what his weaknesses are because we haven’t seen him lose yet or be exposed in a fight,” said Williams.

 

“I haven’t got a clue as to how the fight will go but I think our styles should gel quite well. Me and Chisora will make for an excellent fight which is exactly the type of note I want my career to leave on what will be a good show.”

 

Whatever the outcome of his final fight, the Brixton Bomber can be proud of his ring accomplishments which have seen him reign as British and Commonwealth champion and famously defeat Mike Tyson and Audley Harrison during his topsy-turvy 14-year career. Williams’ bravery was emphasised none more so by his dramatic victory over Mark Potter while boxing with a dislocated shoulder and in his gallant WBC world title loss to Vitali Klitschko.

 

In more recent times however, the 36-year-old has faced criticism over his commitment to Boxing but resisted urges to immediately retire following his shock defeat to the unheralded Carl Baker in Prizefighter last October.

 

“What people say doesn’t really bother me, it simply makes me want to train harder to prove them wrong. Chisora is a very disrespectful person. People like him look at fighters such as Ali and Mayweather and believe that the way to be is to trash talk people whereas I believe you should just be yourself," argued Williams.

 

“Win, win or win this is the last time you’ll see Danny Williams in a ring. After the fight, which God willing I’ll win, I’m going to go on a two week course in order to pursue a career as a professional bodyguard. When I hang up the gloves I’d like to do something that enables me to protect people. I’m definitely finished with Boxing,” he concluded.

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[Wheelchair]

Of course the two biggest questions are, will Danny actually fight, and which version of him will get in the ring?

[TheBigTodd]

Maybe they both will..tag-team-styleeeee

[Wheelchair]

It won't seem the same when Danny's gone, who else will take his place as the wearer of the longest boxing trunks?

 

I reckon you could hide a couple of flyweights in them huge things!

 

mlol/

[Wheelchair]

Fightwriter preview.......

 

After a roller-coaster career capped by his startling knockout victory over Mike Tyson and a game challenge against Vitali Klitschko, it looks all over for London heavyweight Danny Williams. He has announced that, win lose or draw, he will retire after his British title defence against Derek Chisora on the Kevin Mitchell-Michael Katsidis show on Saturday.

 

Williams, 36, is much the more experienced man but I see this as a passing-of-the-torch type of fight. Chisora, 26, is a former national amateur champion in the U.K., unbeaten and full of confidence.

 

Although Chisora has never been past eight rounds he will have prepared himself for the 12-round distance, but he might not have to go the route because I cannot see this fight reaching the final bell.

 

Williams has had many hard fights and I think his punch-resistance and ambition are waning. In his last fight, in the Prizefighter tournament, Williams suffered two first-round knockdowns and lost on points to the huge but limited southpaw Carl Baker. The three-round tournament format hurt Danny, who was coming on strongly at the end and would probably have stopped Baker had there been a fourth round. Still, it was worrying to see Williams wobbly against someone of Baker’s lowly repute.

 

Chisora has mostly been matched with unthreatening opposition but he did stop the capable Sam Sexton in the sixth and last round in a clash of prospects two years ago. I thought that Chisora might have been tiring a bit in the fifth round but he dug down, unleashed a barrage of punches and overpowered Sexton in the sixth. In his last fight Chisora showed impressive combinations as he demolished Carl Baker in two rounds.

 

Williams has always been talented and a heavy hitter, and of course he is a very game fighter, but he has lacked consistency. Danny’s dedication to training has been doubted. He is known to love cakes — especially the Mr. Kipling brand in Britain — and I have had the impression for some time that Danny’s heart really isn’t in boxing any more.

 

Worryingly, Williams has been training himself for the fight, which isn’t a good sign.

 

Perhaps Williams has one more big performance in him, but I fear this is unlikely. Chisora has been a bit of a controversial character, mischievously biting an opponent for no apparent reason in a fight he was dominating, playfully kissing Baker on the lips at a press conference before their bout, and he irritatingly wore dark glasses when a studio guest on the now-defunct Setanta TV network (I think it looks so stupid when people wear sunglasses indoors and on planes) but I see him as a talented boxer with good hand speed, and I just don’t think Williams takes a punch at all well these days.

 

Chisora showed he can fight through a difficult passage and win when he stopped Sexton. He might come under pressure on Saturday because Williams is still capable of being dangerous, but I think that Chisora can weather a couple of storms and come on to land his punches with enough accuracy to bring down the curtain on Williams’s career in about eight rounds.

[Wheelchair]

DANNY Williams says that his emphatic loss to Derek Chisora was exactly what he needed to know that his 15-year career was over.

 

The Brixton Bomber lost his British heavyweight title at West Ham’s Upton Park on Saturday night and challenger Chisora, 26, barely needed to break into a sweat before referee Howard Foster rescued the champion in the second round.

 

Williams, 36, claims he can now move on with a life away from boxing.

He told the South London Press: “I needed to know that Danny Williams was finished because otherwise you keep thinking you’ve got a little bit more to offer the sport. I’d have loved to have left the ring on Saturday - and the sport - as British champion but it wasn’t to be.

 

“Leading up to a fight I’m normally a bit edgy but I had no feeling at all - no excitement or anxiety - and that carried right through until I got in the ring. It is the first time I’ve felt like that in 28 years as a boxer. I had no fight in me - it was all gone.

 

“I’ve had battles with the like of Vitali Klitchsko, Mark Potter, Harry Senior and Matt Skelton and those chip away at you. I’ve been to the well too many times and now it is totally empty.”

 

 

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/Sport.cfm?id=17370&headline=Danny

[Faulks]

Should of had a look at yourself after Prizefighter IMO. Good honest interview though i suppose.

 

Cheers for the memorys