Derek Chisora is reportedly set to face Otto Wallin after his fight with Jarrell Miller was called off earlier this week.
Chisora and Miller were due to headline a card on February 8 in Manchester, staged by Frank Warren‘s Queensberry Promotions.
Chisora vs Miller has been called off and won’t take place in February[/caption]
However, Miller declared on Tuesday that the contest had collapsed due to a contractual dispute with his former promoter Dmitry Salita.
“The fight with Chisora is off,” said Miller on Instagram. “Chisora is a good dude, he wants to fight, I want to fight.
“The fight is off because this little piece of s*** named Dmitry Salita, the dirtiest human being I have met in my entire life and I have met a lot of dirty mother f******.
“But Salita is the worst human being that has ever walked the planet.
“Him and his dirty a*** lawyer are compulsive liars. My contract is up with him but he is exercising his first and last right refusal and blatantly made up an entire story to try to get more money out of me.”
As a result of Miller’s inability to fight, Queensberry has had to move on and find a new opponent at the last minute.
And according to The Sun, they have chosen Wallin.
British boxing fans will remember Wallin as the man who left Tyson Fury in a bloody mess when they squared off in 2019.
In the third round, the Swede opened up a deep cut above Fury’s right eye which affected his vision for the rest of the fight.
Fury required 47 stitches and plastic surgery after the damage inflicted by Wallin but managed to see out the fight and win on points.
Wallin wasn’t able to make it to the final bell when he fought Anthony Joshua four years later.
The Watford powerhouse battered the 34-year-old from pillar to post, prompting his corner to pull him out at the end of the fifth round.
After losing to AJ, Wallin returned to the ring in July to flatten Onoriode Ehwarieme inside the opening stanza to improve his record to 27-2.
Chisora is currently riding a two-fight win streak having revived his career with wins over Gerald Washington and Joe Joyce.
He is 35-13 overall and wants to have two more fights in order to make it to 50 professional bouts before hanging up his gloves.
His final outing is expected to be a trilogy clash with Dillian Whyte.
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