Francesco Pianeta: record, next fight and profile →
Tyson Fury has stressed his confidence that he will face – and beat – Deontay Wilder after next month’s clash with Francesco Pianeta. Fury, who takes on Italian Pianeta at Belfast’s Windsor Park on August 18 in the second fight of his comeback, said on social media on Monday that he was in talks with WBC heavyweight champion Wilder, adding: “Negotiations are very strong for December, we’re almost done for this deal.”
TYSON FURY SAID he was after a taller order following his first comeback fight at the Manchester Arena in June and now he has got his wish – in more ways than one. Tyson’s June date was always just about getting him back out on the canvas again after such a prolonged layoff and the shedding of a huge quantity of excess baggage from around his midriff.
TYSON FURY HAS vowed to abide by team orders and keep it strictly business when he turns to the second chapter of his comeback story against Francesco Pianeta in Belfast on August 18. The lineal world heavyweight champion took showboating to a new level in the first of his return bouts against Sefer Seferi at the Manchester Arena in June, first setting the mood for the evening by planting a smacker on the equally game for a laugh Albanian.
Lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will take on former European champion and two-time world title challenger Francesco Pianeta at Windsor Park on August 18. Fury (26-0-KO19) returned from two-and-a-half years out of the ring with a dominant stoppage of Sefer Seferi in Manchester on June 9 and will continue his march back towards the top against Pianeta (35-4-1-KO21).
Tyson Fury has an opponent for his August 18 fight in Belfast. Promoter Frank Warren announced Thursday that the former heavyweight champion will face Francesco Pianeta in the second fight of Fury’s comeback.
Dutch super middleweight and former World Boxing Super Series participant Nieky Holzken, 13-1, takes on Serbian veteran Geard Ajetovic, 31-17-1, on April 28 in Offenburg. Also on the bill is Norwegian cruiserweight Kai Robin Havnaa, 12-0, who takes on Frank Bluemle, 15-5-2.
Swedish heavyweight Adrian Granat, now trained by former WBO middleweight champ Armand Krajnc, takes on Bosnian Abdulnaser Delalic, 2-3, at the EC Boxing gym in Hamburg. Delalic fought on the undercard on the same show in March where Granat was knocked out in one by Aleksander Dimitrenko and put up one good round before tiring against Junior Maximus was stopped in the second. Anything but an early win for Granat, 14-1, would be a huge sensation.
IBO International heavyweight champion Francesco Pianeta (34-2-1) defends the title on October 14 in Munich against American contender Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson (31-8-1) in the headliner of a show put on by Petko´s Box Promotion.
Heavyweight Tom Schwarz (19-0) defends the WBO Intercontinental title against Marcin Siwy (17-0) on September 30 at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg (Germany) in a battle of unbeaten heavyweights. The show is promoted by SES.
World Boxing Super Series: With Scandinavian network MTG/Viasat as one of the investors in Comosa AG - who are organizing the WBSS Tournament - it was only natural to see a Scandinavian enter and Erik Skoglund, 26-0 is now on.