{"id":70887,"date":"2026-04-04T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/deontay-wilder-beats-battling-derek-chisora-as-epic-bout-goes-the-distance\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:59:04","slug":"deontay-wilder-beats-battling-derek-chisora-as-epic-bout-goes-the-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/deontay-wilder-beats-battling-derek-chisora-as-epic-bout-goes-the-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Deontay Wilder beats battling Derek Chisora as epic bout goes the distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Wilder wins heavyweight contest on split decision<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>British boxer earns hero\u2019s reception in final fight<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deontay Wilder consigned the British heavyweight Derek Chisora to defeat in his final bout but only after an exhilarating fight-of-the-year contender at a raucous O<sub>2<\/sub> Arena. In the 50th bout of Chisora\u2019s eventful professional career, Del Boy showed remarkable powers of recovery to come back from a punishing eighth round and take the former WBC champion the distance in south-east London.<\/p>\n<p>After the American showed early on the power that once made him one of the most formidable punchers in heavyweight history, Chisora\u2019s farewell threatened to turned into a nightmare during a one-sided start.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/05\/deontay-wilder-beats-derek-chisora-epic-bout-split-decision\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilder wins heavyweight contest on split decision British boxer earns hero\u2019s reception in final fight Deontay Wilder consigned the British heavyweight Derek Chisora to defeat in his final bout but only after an exhilarating fight-of-the-year contender at a raucous O2 Arena. In the 50th bout of Chisora\u2019s eventful professional career, Del Boy showed remarkable powers &#8230; <a title=\"Deontay Wilder beats battling Derek Chisora as epic bout goes the distance\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/deontay-wilder-beats-battling-derek-chisora-as-epic-bout-goes-the-distance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Deontay Wilder beats battling Derek Chisora as epic bout goes the distance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}