They’re calling it ‘The Last Dance’ for British heavyweight warhorse Derek Chisora when he faces off vs Otto Wallin in Manchester tonight (Saturday February 8), but only a brave man would bet on this being his final fight as a professional.
The 41-year-old ‘Del Boy’ has mixed it with most of the big guns down the years, and tonight he adds the 34-year-old Swede Wallin to his resume as he goes into action for the 49th time in the paid ranks.
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Chisora may ‘only’ be 35-13 as a pro but that only tells part of the story. He’s gone to war three times with former lineal heavyweight king Tyson Fury, and gave current ruler Oleksandr Usyk all he could handle in a cracking scrap back in 2020 in London. Most of those defeats have come against absolute top-level opposition.
Wallin meanwhile is on a redemption mission here – for a while he was seen as a live threat in the division on the back of cutting Fury badly en route to a close loss in Las Vegas in 2019. But the aura around him was removed emphatically when he was blasted out in five by Anthony Joshua in Riyadh in December 2023.
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We are now just hours away from fight time, so here is all you need to do for the big showdown at Manchester’s Co-Op Arena tonight.
Chisora vs Wallin ring walks
Ring walks for the main event are expected to take place around 2200 local UK time. That is 2300 CET, 1700 Eastern Time in the US or 1400 PST on the West Coast.
How to watch live
TNT Sports will have the call in the UK and the fight is available free for all current subscribers. No Box Office PPV here, fight fans. If you are hoping to watch in the US, you’ll need a DAZN subscription – again no PPV.
Latest Odds
It’s very tight in the pre-fight betting. Uk oddsmakers have Wallin a slight 8/15 favourite while Chisora is the 2/1 underdog. It’s 20/1 the Draw.
Official Weights
The weigh-in took place in Manchester yesterday (Friday) and as ever with Chisora, it was entertaining. He put the Swede in a headlock after scaling 259.7lbs (18st 7.7lbs) while Otto came in more than 20lbs lighter at 239.1lbs (17st 1.1lbs).
Chisora vs Wallin undercard
The whole show in Manchester starts around 1830 local time, and there are plenty of fights for fans to take in. The undercard looks like this:
- Masood Abdulah vs Zak Miller – featherweight
- Jack Rafferty vs Reece MacMillan – super lightweight
- Zach Parker vs Mickael Diallo – light heavyweight
- Nathan Heaney vs Sofiane Khati – middleweight
- Nelson Hysa vs Todorche Cvetkov – heavyweight
- Walter Fury vs Joe Hardy – super welterweight
- Joe Cooper vs Artjom Spatar – middleweight
- Lewis Williams vs Cristian Uwaka – heavyweight
- Jermaine Dhliwayo vs Mark Butler – super featherweight
