Comments Thread For: Pianeta Motivated By History To Unseat Ruslan Chagaev

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Berlin - Challenger Francesco Pianeta hopes to end Germany's 83-year wait for a world heavyweight champion on Saturday when he fights champion Ruslan Chagaev for the WBA belt.

Heavyweight legend Max Schmeling, who died aged 99 in 2005, was the last German to hold a world heavyweight belt in 1932, when he lost to Jack Sharkey, and the 30-year-old Pianeta, the son of Italian immigrants, wants a world title at the second attempt.

Pianeta is the fifth German since the Schmeling era to fight for a world belt after Axel Schulz, who had three title bouts in the 1990s, Luan Krasniqi (in 2005), Marco Huck (2012) and Manuel Charr (2012).
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[giacomino]

Chagaev is not a world heavyweight champion, only a paper belt holder, and Pianeta was already slaughtered by the real champion, so to compare him to Schmeling is beyond silly and shows how devalued alphabet title belts are