DILLIAN WHYTE cannot wait for another Dereck Chisora payday — a decade after bashing him up for free.
The British heavyweights slugged out a fight-of-the-year contender in 2016, with Brixton ‘Body Snatcher’ Whyte winning on a controversial split decision.
3 Dillian Whyte remembers with relish his first encounter with British heavyweight rival Dereck Chisora a decade ago
But it was way back in 2008 that the two big men first met when Jamaica-born Whyte facing Chisora in rough, tough, unpaid sparring sessions.
Looking back at his initial encounter with 34-year-old Chisora, Whyte said: “I came off the street and was just excited about getting to punch someone in the face.
“A few times I sparred him for free . . . I didn’t care about the money, I just loved it.
"I was sparring one of the big dogs and bashing him up.