Derek Chisora came off worse for wear from his fight with Otto Wallin on Saturday night.
Despite dominating proceedings en route to a unanimous decision victory, Chisora sustained plenty of damage.
Early in the fight, Chisora suffered a nasty gash above his right eye that painted his face red.
However, that wasn’t the only adversity he had to come through.
In the immediate aftermath, Chisora also revealed that he popped both of his eardrums during the bout.
“It was very hard,” said Chisora of his 12-round clash with Wallin at the Co-Op Live Arena in Manchester.
“When I got the cut, then something happened in the third round which I didn’t tell my trainers, my ears popped, and I said I’m going to carry on.”
Chisora made it to the final bell despite the injury and dropped Wallin twice in rounds 9 and 12 to cap off a spirited display.
In doing so, he earned himself a No.2 spot in the IBF heavyweight rankings after the bout was upgraded to a title eliminator during fight week.
Queensberry Promotions dubbed the event ‘Last Dance’ but in reality, it was only Chisora’s farewell fight on British shores.
He is expected to have his 50th and final professional outing abroad this year.
Post-fight he called out unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, IBF title holder Daniel Dubois and two-time heavyweight king Anthony Joshua.
He asked the fans to choose who he would fight next, with the Manchester crowd appearing to cheer loudest for Joshua.
“People, you decide. Do I get Triple D? Do I get my brother AJ? Or do I get Oleksandr Usyk?” he shouted.
Chisora had previously called for either a trilogy bout with Dillian Whyte or a crossover clash with former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou for his last dance.
However, he distanced himself from the latter during his post-fight press conference.
“I don’t think Francis Ngannou will come back to boxing after the AJ loss,” he said.
“Nah, I want to fight a fighter or I might fight Jake Paul, who knows.”
