Derek Chisora reveals what he would have done to students who heckled Anthony Joshua

Derek Chisora has revealed he would have ‘done much worse’ to the students who hurled abuse at Anthony Joshua.

A video emerged online of the British superstar confronting a group of drunk students who accused him of ducking a fight with Tyson Fury at Loughborough University last month.

The former two-time heavyweight champion of the world was on his way home from training for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk when the incident occurred.

Joshua was walking past a halls of residence when the university students began shouting abuse at him before he turned up on their doorstep to give them a piece of his mind.

But Chisora insists they were lucky it wasn’t him standing there in his place instead.

“I would have done much worse,” he told talkSPORT when discussing the former two-time heavyweight world champion’s recent actions.

“No, I wouldn’t have taken my shoes off. I would have smashed the whole house up. I’d have robbed them afterwards as well.

“Nobody shouts abuse at me, mate. I give it.”

Not everyone agrees, however, with former Arsenal defender Martin Keown arguing it’s not the right way to sort things out.

However, Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, insists he can’t see anything wrong with it.

“People criticise AJ sometimes,” Hearn said in response to Keown’s comments during an appearance on talkSPORT to promote Chisora’s upcoming rematch with Joshua’s former opponent, Kubrat Pulev.

“You can’t have it both ways.

“Sometimes they say ‘Oh, you’re too corporate. Too Mr. Nice Guy.’

“Then, all of a sudden, when he does that it’s ‘Woah, what’s that! Oh, you’re showing your real side.’” 

He added: “You’ve got to understand, this is a young man from the estate who’s changed his life through boxing. He’s achieved a huge