Topping the bill at the Copper Box Arena, which was used for handball at the London 2012 Olympics, Chisora entered the ring in good form having won four successive contests, the most recent against Ondrej Pala in November.
England, having failed to win a series down under in 24 years, could come out on top in four successive Ashes contests for the first time since the days when WG Grace stopped shaving.
Paterson voted for John Redwood, Iain Duncan Smith and Liam Fox in successive Tory leadership contests, and was the first member of this cabinet to oppose gay marriage.
And Cam Fletcher (73 not out) and Todd Astle (45 not out) proved the match-winners with the former finishing off the contest with successive fours.
Oxford's sporting disappointment continued in the afternoon, as the university's crew was defeated by three lengths by Cambridge in the Boat Race, Cambridge's fourth successive victory in the contest.
Johnson – I refuse absolutely to capitulate to the habit of calling him by his first name in print and hereby urge all fellow members of the Society of Columnists and Allied Trades to do the same – has won two successive head-to-head contests against Labour in a city that has been moving leftwards in most other recent elections.
Nigeria will now contest a third successive third-place play-off - against Senegal tomorrow - rather than a third final in 12 years, and Drogba took time out of the victory celebrations to console Mikel after the final whistle.
That end being the art world's shedding of its centuries-old successions of linearly dialectical, but contesting, movements, with each successive generation attempting to supplant the last.
The worst culprit, though, was the North Korean federation, which listed one athlete as 15 for three successive years so that she could contest age-group championships.
Not that they are immune to errors, some of which helped Thursday's contest develop into the second successive thriller after China's narrow victory in Wednesday's men's team final.
