{"id":7406,"date":"2024-11-27T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/derek-chisora-vs-otto-wallin-heavyweight-fight-agreed-for-february-in-manchester\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:28:23","slug":"derek-chisora-vs-otto-wallin-heavyweight-fight-agreed-for-february-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/derek-chisora-vs-otto-wallin-heavyweight-fight-agreed-for-february-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Chisora vs Otto Wallin: Heavyweight fight agreed for February in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British heavyweight Derek Chisora will face Sweden&#8217;s Otto Wallin in Manchester on Saturday, 8 February.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A veteran of 48 fights, Chisora will turn 41 six weeks before the fight at the Co-op Live arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Londoner, who earned a unanimous points decision win over Joe Joyce in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqv51we248go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">July<\/a>, suggested he is close to retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some amazing nights in Manchester, both in the ring and in the warehouse raves, so it was only right I had one last dance up north,&#8221; Chisora said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zimbabwe-born Chisora made his debut in 2007. He has lost 13 pro fights, including three to Tyson Fury and a world-title shot against Vitali Klitschko in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Come 8 February I&#8217;m going to be bringing war to Wallin, be ready for my penultimate showreel knockout,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chisora was in negotiations to fight Jarrell Miller before the fight fell through amid a dispute between the American and his promoter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wallin, 34, has won 27 pro fights with two defeats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He inflicted a cut on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/49705685\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Fury<\/a> which needed 47 stitches before losing on points in 2019 and was stopped by a dominant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/67797121\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know I&#8217;m walking into the lion&#8217;s den, but I will be ready for it and ready to get the victory,&#8221; Wallin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British light-heavyweights Willy Hutchinson and Zach Parker will contest the chief support bout at the 23,500-capacity indoor arena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cgj7x6541qjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight Derek Chisora will face Sweden&#8217;s Otto Wallin in Manchester on Saturday, 8 February. A veteran of 48 fights, Chisora will turn 41 six weeks before the fight at the Co-op Live arena. The Londoner, who earned a unanimous points decision win over Joe Joyce in July, suggested he is close to retirement. &#8220;I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}