It’s not every day that boxers show such a great deal of respect towards one another, to a point where one of them wouldn’t mind losing for a third time if it meant getting Tyson Fury back into the ring.

In a world where social media spats and verbal exchanges are common place, Dereck Chisora, who lost to Fury twice, once in 2011 and once again in 2014, seems to be missing his ring mate, claiming he’s the only boxer that “doesn’t take crap.”

Fury was photographed sparring for the first time since a fiasco last October came at the expense of his world titles, and Chisora is hoping he sorts things out with the British Boxing Board of Control so that he can get right into it.

Speaking to reporters, Chisora said: “He better come back, I love him. He’s the only guy who doesn’t take crap from people.

“Me and Tyson understand each other. When he won those titles he messaged me and said he wanted to defend them with me.

“We didn’t protect Tyson, the BBBoC, people in London didn’t, we should protect our own.

“I send him messages when I hear he is in London or when I am in Manchester.

“I saw him coming off the rails because he won all those titles, became heavyweight champion of the world and he couldn’t defend it.”

Things went sour for Fury when, after usurping Wladimir Klitschko in Germany, the IBF took away his titles for arranging a rematch and not complying with their schedule for his next fighter.

He then came under fire for supposed homophobic insinuations while handling questions from the media, and this completed the breakdown.

London-based Chisora, however, was quick to defend his mate, insisting that Fury was not making homophobic suggestions and that people should judge him on his performances in the ring rather than what he says.

“I don’t believe that Tyson is homophobic,” said Chisora. “People are allowed to say what they want.

“Does he come out of his house, see a gay couple and start having a go at them? No, I don’t think he is like that.

"You can say your opinion but you can’t start having a go at people – that’s wrong – and I don’t think Tyson did that.

"My belief is he is not like that, really and truly. Because there are things people say and things they act on.

“My old house was right on Hamstead Heath and I used to go jogging sometimes at three or four in the morning.

"I used to get guys up there offering me lifts and inviting me into their cars.

“I would just explain ‘no thanks, I’m straight, my house is just over there.

“They were just trying his luck in the same way I did when I got my wife.

“Tyson has never been that bad.”

Chisora is no stranger to controversy either, pulling off a number of stunts to put off opponents and hype up his fights during an explosive career. He and Fury, in that sense, are like two peas in a pod, on the opposite end of the “role model” scale to the golden boy Anthony Joshua.

And Chisora doesn’t have any plans to clean up his act any time soon, saying: “I am not a role model. I have to be one for my daughter and nieces and nephews but that’s it.

“It’s hard work and I do not want to disappoint anyone. I like Mike Tyson’s style but he is not my role model.

“I cannot be a role model for anyone’s kids.”

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