Dereck Chisora (born 29 December 1983) is a British professional boxer. He is currently the WBA International champion, having held the title since 2018. Previously he held the WBA International, WBO International, European, British, and Commonwealth heavyweight titles between 2010 and 2014, and has challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title in 2012. As of July 2018, Chisora is ranked as the world's seventh best active heavyweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. and eleventh by Boxrec.
Chisora was born in Mbare, a suburb of the Zimbabwean capital Harare. As a teenager he attended Churchill School. Chisora and his family moved to the United Kingdom in 1999 and lived in Finchley, London.
Chisora turned professional on 17 February 2007, scoring a second round TKO against István Kecskés. After winning three more fights (all by decision), he came up against the toughest test of his career against fellow rising British heavyweight prospect, Sam Sexton. Chisora won the fight by stopping Sexton in the final 30 seconds of the final round. He moved on from the win over Sexton by beating Shawn Mclean, an American, at the Grosvenor House hotel in Mayfair, and then stopped the experienced Lee Swaby in 3 rounds at the York Hall. Chisora finished the year with a December victory over Neil Simpson at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London's Docklands leaving him with an 8–0 record at the end of his second year as a professional.