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Chisora has faced the biggest names in the heavyweight division since making his debut in 2007. <\/p>\n
He has lost to former world champion Tyson Fury on three occasions and Dillian Whyte and Parker twice, and has also come up short against Vitali Klitschko and Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n
Chisora entered Thursday’s news conference at Manchester’s Edwardian Hotel – the same venue where he threw a table at Whyte<\/a> nine years ago – wearing a cowboy hat with a speaker playing ‘American Remains’ by country supergroup the Highwaymen, and he played Johnny Cash’s ‘(Ghost) Riders In The Sky’ as the two rivals faced off.<\/p>\n Despite his popularity, Chisora has often been a controversial figure in boxing. The former British and Commonwealth champion was found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend<\/a> in 2010 but was spared jail and handed a 12-week sentence suspended for two years.<\/p>\n He adopted a jovial approach to proceedings on Thursday, poking fun at members of the media who have “written rubbish” about him during his career, and attempted to draw a response from a cool and collected Wallin.<\/p>\n “Otto Wallin can play poker, he has a good poker face. I’ve sat here 49 times and they all say the same thing,” Chisora said.<\/p>\n “The only fighter who stood toe-to-toe was Dillian [Whyte], Otto won’t do that. We chose a smaller ring so he can’t run.”<\/p>\n Wallin – whose two career defeats both came against British opponents – looked happy to take a backseat on Thursday.<\/p>\n