Derek Chisora on why he’s a ‘scumbag’ – and why I should drink more sambuca
INTERVIEW: The 42-year-old (claims he) will retire after his heavyweight clash with Deontay Wilder and, as Alex Pattle learns, his body is certainly telling him to...
I thought we were supposed to be asking the questions. Those of us more accustomed to rattling laptop keyboards than heavyweight skulls sit opposite Derek Chisora , arranged in a crescent, ready to interview the star of the moment – but it’s the British veteran who has a question for us. For me, awkwardly.
“How old are you? ” he says with an accusatory point and a suspicious squint. “Twenty-nine!
He’s okay,” Chisora tells those gathered in the room. What does he mean “okay”? “He can go out and drink sambucas, and every shot you could ever take down the road, come out the pub lagging, go to sleep with fish and chips down his gut, wake up, and he’s fine.
” I’m not sure I want to, to be honest, but I’m hesitant to tell “Delboy”. “Now you take f***ing sambuca,” he jibes at various faces, dotted around the room, “you’re dying for three or four days! ” He includes himself in that group, mind: “When you’re in your 40s man, it’s just...
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