Vitali Klitschko beats Dereck Chisora on points in WBC heavyweight title defence in Munich.

The Telegraph - Vitali Klitschko meted out a one-sided 12-round beating on Dereck Chisora to earn a 10th successive defence of the World Boxing Council title, but this was the stiffest challenge the Ukrainian has faced since his return from knee surgery in 2008.

Chisora may have been labelled a coward for his slap 24 hours earlier, and caused further ignominy just before the contest for spitting at Klitschko’s brother Wladimir inside the ring, but this was a brave performance way beyond what anyone, apart from Chisora’s immediate team, knew the battling British fighter was capable of.
Even by the 12th round, badly beaten up and behind on all but arguably two rounds, Chisora, the bad boy of the event, refused to buckle or admit to defeat. He threw everything he had at the giant champion, who won a lopsided, unanimous decision 118-10 twice and 119-111.
In 1976, Yorkshireman Richard Dunn was put down five times by Muhammad Ali here at the Olympiahalle and eventually stopped by referee Herbert Tomser after being counted out in the fifth.
It was seen as a courageous performance by Dunn. This was beyond that by Chisora, who marched forward in all 12 rounds, bobbing and weaving, attempting to keep the pressure on his foe, all the time eating heavy right hands and jabs from the champion.
The British heavyweight refused to keep to the script. When Klitschko arrived in the ring, Chisora was back at his game, pushing the Ukrainian. The two fighters were quickly separated. Then, after the anthems, Chisora spat water in Wladimir Klitschko’s face.

Slapping, pushing and spitting over, we finally had the fight. Klitschko was put under pressure by Chisora in terms of pace but had an answer at every turn. He buckled Chisora’s legs for the first time in round nine, and landed some powerful uppercuts throughout the rounds.
Klitschko moved his career record to 44-2 with 40 knockouts, while Chisora, 15-3, was consigned to his third defeat in four fights.
“You can boo me you can hate me, but as long as people pay money to come and fight I am happy. I don’t care, I pushed the pace of the fight,” said Chisora. “I’d fight him again, or his brother. I’m not proud of my performance because I felt I let down my fans.”
Frank Warren said it was Klitschko’s hardest test since he fought Lennox Lewis in 2003: “It was a phenomenoal performance by Dereck and it was only the experience by Klitscho that beat him. No one gave him an earthly of winning but he went out there and proved everyone wrong. He has the makings of a heavyweight world champion.”
After being pummelled around the ring, Chisora was also hit in the pocket with a $50,000 (£32,500) fine for slapping Klitschko at Friday’s weigh-in.
WBC president Jose Sulaiman confirmed the scale of the punishment yesterday, and condemned the underdog challenger’s actions in the strongest possible terms. Sulaiman labelled it “a lack of respect for the sport, completely unacceptable, a cheap shot”.
The controversy had continued in the hours leading up to the fight. Chisora was embroiled in controversy on his arrival at the arena. The British heavyweight arrived with his hands already wrapped.
Under championship rules, the opposing camp has the right to send a representative to see the hand-wrapping process of the opponent. Klitschko appealed immediately. He sent his brother, world champion Wladimir, to check the detail.
By all accounts, Chisora had initially refused, with the start of the fight then delayed by almost 20 minutes. Further ignominy – Chisora is also facing a fine from the WBC over the hand-wrap situation. Although officials should remain neutral, even Sulaiman, before the contest, was saying that Klitschko would “make him [Chisora] pay for it in the ring”.
David Haye, working in-studio on television station BoxNation, which aired the fight in the UK, said: “Financially what Chisora did with the slap was a mistake. Forfeiting that part of his purse, when he will have to work in a nine-to-five job in a few months’ time, he might wish he hadn’t. It's an expensive slap for someone who doesn’t earn a lot of money.
"Coming off two losses, if Chisora has walked away with £50,000, he’ll have done well. Shannon Briggs [the American heavyweight who challenged Klitschko] walked away with $25,000 after a 12-round beating. Vitali can punish you slowly and he did just that.”
Chisora has had his moment in the heavyweight spotlight. The slap will be remembered forever. Klitschko marches on, with Haye followed by a political career in Kiev, in his sights this summer.