{"id":14779,"date":"2011-08-18T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14779"},"modified":"2011-08-18T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:06:33","slug":"breaking-british-boxing-news-tyson-fury-steps-back-in-the-ring-on-september-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14779","title":{"rendered":"Breaking British Boxing News: Tyson Fury Steps Back in the Ring on September 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will return to the ring on September 17 at the iconic venue of the King\u2019s Hall in Belfast, fresh from his electrifying victory over Dereck Chisora at Wembley Arena last month. Fury\u2019s opponent will be named next week in Belfast at a press conference at the King\u2019s Hall on Wednesday (24 August) when Hennessy Sports will also have the undercard in attendance for this Channel 5 screened show. <\/p>\n

It had been hoped that Fury would face former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Martin Rogan in a British, Commonwealth and Irish title fight but a new opponent must be found after the Belfast man refused to fight Fury.<\/p>\n

Fury commented: \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed in Martin because he was at my fight with Chisora in London and said right after that he wanted the fight. He was made a massive offer, he was getting the chance to fight in Belfast, he said he was going to beat me senseless and yet he walked away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion that is just the mentality of a bully boy. He talked the talk but he couldn\u2019t walk the walk which must be embarrassing for him in Belfast. I know he lost twice to Sam Sexton in Belfast and maybe he didn\u2019t want to get beaten up again in Belfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the Irish fans will know when they see me box in Belfast that they\u2019re looking at the best Irish heavyweight around and I\u2019m not going to walk away from any challenge. I\u2019m going all the way to the World heavyweight title.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promoter Mick Hennessy commented: \u201cThe fight fans in Belfast can expect a great night\u2019s boxing on September 17. Tyson Fury is the new star of Irish and World boxing and he\u2019s very proud of his Irish roots so that\u2019s why he wants to box in Belfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know the history surrounding the King\u2019s Hall so it\u2019s a privilege for Tyson to fight there. We\u2019ll officially finalize everything next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theresa Morrissey, Financial and Commercial Director at the King\u2019s Hall said, \u201cThe Complex is delighted to welcome Hennessy Sports to the venue for the first time. The King\u2019s Hall is the home of high profile boxing matches in Northern Ireland and we look forward to lots of entertainment on the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

To add spice to the event, former WBC Light Welterweight Champion Junior \u201cThe Hitter\u201d Witter will be in action against Northern Ireland\u2019s former Irish champion Stephen Haughian over 10 rounds.<\/p>\n

Joining these fighters at the King\u2019s Hall will be a host of talented boxers including Kid Galahad, Phill Fury, Ryan Greene, Willie Thomspson, Tommy Tolan, Phil Townsley and Kevin O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n

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British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will return to the ring on September 17 at the iconic venue of the King\u2019s Hall in Belfast, fresh from his electrifying victory over Dereck Chisora at Wembley Arena last month. Fury\u2019s opponent will be named next week in Belfast at a press conference at the King\u2019s Hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,1178],"class_list":["post-14779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-tyson-fury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14779"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}