Derek Chisora overcame a badly cut eye to deliver a gusty unanimous points win over Otto Wallin in Manchester in what was billed as his final fight on British soil.
Chisora started on the front foot and maintained his momentum despite picking up a deep cut above his right eye in the fifth round, as well as one below, which poured with blood, before going on to twice put Wallin on the canvas.
After continuing to take more punishment, Wallin was eventually sent sprawling back across the ring and on to the canvas by a massive right from Chisora in the ninth round, but got up to take a standing eight count.
With Wallin not offering much during the first couple of rounds, Chisora landed a big right hand over the top in the third to continue his early dominance with little coming back the other way from the southpaw.
Chisora made a solid start, landing plenty of body shots on the 6ft 5ins Swede, whose only two previous defeats had come against Tyson Fury, by unanimous decision in 2019, and then when he was stopped by Anthony Joshua in December 2023.
