Fury vs. Pianeta will serve as the chief support of Carl Frampton\u2019s interim featherweight title defense against undefeated contender Luke Jackson on the pitch at Windsor Park, where an expected 30,000 fans will witness the first boxing event at the home of Northern Irish football.<\/p>\n
Studio coverage of SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL from New York begins at 3:30 p.m. ET\/12:30 p.m. PT with host Brian Custer and Hall of Fame analyst Steve Farhood providing pre-and post-fight analysis. Live coverage from Belfast, which will be provided by BT Sport, will begin with the Pianeta ring walk shortly after 3:30. U.K. sportscaster John Rawling will call the action with Barry Jones providing analysis, and Ronald McIntosh conducting post-fight interviews for Fury-Pianeta.<\/p>\n
The former IBF, WBA and WBO champion Fury (26-0, 19 KOs) returned to the ring in June and will fight for the second time in less than 75 days following a nearly three-year layoff. Prior to his extended hiatus, the 6-foot-9 Fury established himself as the premier heavyweight boxer in the world by becoming the first man to defeat Wladimir Klitschko in more than 11 years.<\/p>\n
Pianeta (35-4-1, 21 KOs), a 6-foot-5 southpaw who fights out of Germany, has twice challenged for the heavyweight world title. Pianeta faced then-unified champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2013 and lost in a bid for a secondary title against Ruslan Chagaev in 2015.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what the fighters had to say at Europa Hotel in Belfast on Tuesday:<\/p>\n
Tyson Fury<\/p>\n
\u201cThe old Tyson Fury is gone. The Tyson Fury from three years ago and beyond is finished. Let\u2019s face it, we all move forward in life with age and experiences and I\u2019m not looking to dwell on the past. I\u2019m looking to live for today and improve on who I am tomorrow. The new Tyson Fury is here now and my promise is to put on a good fight. Whether that\u2019s better or worse than the old Tyson Fury, we\u2019ll find out on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you\u2019re likely to see from me on Saturday is a heavyweight Sugar Ray Leonard. Anything less is a failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do want to win a world title again so I have to raise my game. I\u2019ve been out of the ring for three years nearly. It\u2019s an uphill battle to lose the weight I\u2019ve lost. It\u2019s been challenging and a long, hard battle to get back to where I am.<\/p>\n
\u201cI study my heavyweights and I know Francesco has fought some very good men. He had a very good winning spree, he was 28-0 when he fought Klitschko. I\u2019m not underestimating Francesco. I know he\u2019s a very big, strong fellow and he knows if he wins this fight then he can go on to fight (Deontay) Wilder instead of me. It\u2019s all to play for.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn heavyweight boxing, if you take your eye off the goal for ten seconds you\u2019re out of there. I know what to expect, I expect him to bring his \u2018A game\u2019 and he\u2019s going to try to knock me out because that\u2019s what they all do. Hopefully, he\u2019s not successful and we put on a great show and entertain the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I come through this, then Wilder has a chance to fight me for the lineal championship. I\u2019m not the one who gets the chance to fight him. Let\u2019s face it, he hasn\u2019t really fought anybody. He has 40 fights and it is what it is. We\u2019re not here to talk about Wilder at all. It may as well be a million years in the future, I\u2019ve got to concentrate on this man in front of me. I\u2019m sure he wants to take my glory away from me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve made all the right sacrifices. I trained really well, ate right, slept well and I had four or five sparring partners that were all southpaws. If I do what I think I can do, then I\u2019ll impress, put on a good show and win the fight. If I don\u2019t do what I think I can do, then I\u2019ll get chinned in about ten seconds and it will be, \u2018See you later Tyson Fury and hello Francesco Pianeta.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSouthpaws are a lot more awkward because there\u2019s less of them in the division. You don\u2019t get too much work with southpaws other than when you\u2019re fighting with them. It\u2019s hard to get southpaws to spar in training because there aren\u2019t many heavyweight southpaws around the world. But I do have one interesting fact, every southpaw amateur or professional I\u2019ve ever faced I\u2019ve knocked out. That\u2019s not good for Francesco.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be a two-time heavyweight champion is all right. It\u2019s not great because there\u2019s been plenty. To be a three-time heavyweight champion, it\u2019s been done before. So I think I want to set a precedent of being a five-time heavyweight champion without losing a fight. That\u2019s my goal. I always aim for the stars and set big targets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can beat Francesco Pianeta on Saturday night, I\u2019ve beaten another boxer. Big deal. But if he beats me, he\u2019s going on to something very big. It would be life-changing for him. It I can\u2019t beat Francesco, then I\u2019m going nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m the greatest heavyweight that\u2019s ever been born, so I should handle Francesco Pianeta. And whoever else is out there, Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, all the bums out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to win all the belts back. I\u2019ve only got to beat two bums, basically. Wilder and Joshua and that\u2019s it. They both haven\u2019t got a brain cell between them so it shouldn\u2019t be too hard for a great boxer like myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Davison, Fury\u2019s Trainer<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything is good with Tyson. It\u2019s good that he\u2019s getting straight into the ring again. It\u2019s been a good progression since the last fight and everything is perfect. We\u2019re just ready for Saturday night. You can\u2019t do anything more from now.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s lost a good amount of weight since the last fight. To me, there\u2019s only a certain level of fitness that you can get to and Tyson runs on two very good engines anyway. There\u2019s never been any worry with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Francesco Pianeta<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to give my best and I\u2019m looking forward to the fight. It\u2019s an honor for me to box in front of such an audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a high opinion on Tyson. I was very impressed with his win over Klitschko, I rate him very highly. He says that he\u2019s knocked out every southpaw he\u2019s ever faced, but we\u2019ll see if he is able to do that Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n
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