Derek Chisora hasn’t decided whether he will use The Eagles’ hit, Hotel California, or Johnny Cash’s (Ghost) Riders in the Sky as his ring walk music this weekend but when the veteran heavyweight reaches the ring and ducks between the ropes for his IBF title eliminator with Otto Wallin on Saturday night, waiting for him will be Hall of Fame promoter, Frank Warren.

Chisora and Wallin will meet at Manchester’s Co-Op Live Arena. TNT Sports will televise the show in the UK. DAZN will show the card globally.

Warren has had an eighteen year, ‘one and off relationship’ with the mercurial heavyweight whose fight with Wallin will be his 49th and final British appearance. The 40 year-old Londoner has vowed to retire after his fiftieth fight.

When asked to name the moment that springs to mind when he looks back on their time together, Warren pointed to Chisora’s 2012 trip to Munich when he travelled into the lion’s den to face then WBC heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko.

Just two months after Chisora came out on the wrong end of a controversial split decision loss to Robert Helenius in Finland, Warren engineered him a challenge for the formidable Klitschko’s title.

The week encapsulated Chisora’s career in microcosm. He was in an irate, unpredictable mood until an impromptu trip to go sledging with some German school children on his way to the final press conference brightened his demeanor. Things quickly turned dark again. He slapped Vitali at the weigh in, spat water in his brother, Wladimir’s, face in the ring on the night and ended the evening rolling around with David Haye at the post fight press conference. Buried away amongst that list of escapades was a brave, determined effort in the ring.

“I think the most memorable thing about him is the Klitschko situation,” Warren told The Ring. “With what happened in the dressing room where they tried to make him to take his bandages off and I went off alarming. I said, ‘He's not taking them off.’

“There was all that sort of stuff going on behind the scenes and it weren’t easy for him and, remember, it came out of a situation where [Wladimir] Klitschko pulled out before in a fight [Klitschko withdrew three days before he was due to fight Chisora in 2010] so we had all those things done.

“He went there as an underdog, obviously. I fancied he'd give him a fight and - to be honest with you - I fancied he could pull it off.

“It wasn't a beating but - as I said - a lot of stuff went on behind the scenes and who knows if that hadn't been the case because he gave Klitschko a torrid final round. I mean, he fought right to the end and he won that last round.”