BIG-HITTING COPPER BOX ARENA NEWS! HEAVYWEIGHT STARS TYSON FURY AND COUSIN HUGHIE ADDED TO THE SHOW

BRADLEY SKEETE TAKES ON FORMER WORLD CHAMPION VIVIAN HARRIS
TONY CONQUEST GOES FOR COMMONWEALTH TITLE AGAINST DANIEL AMMANN

Promoter Frank Warren announced today that he has agreed a deal with Tyson Fury's team, represented by Mick Hennessy, for the undefeated heavyweight sensation to fight on the multi-title Copper Box Arena show on Saturday 15th February, live and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 437/Virgin Ch. 546).


Fury will feature in an International Heavyweight contest against an opponent to be confirmed, while his big rival Dereck Chisora headlines the action-packed card defending his European Heavyweight title against undefeated and hard-hitting Ukrainian Andriy Rudenko.

If both men emerge victorious at the Copper Box Arena in their fights then it will set up a deal between the two camps for a joint promotion for the long awaited rematch between the two big men - Fury defeated Chisora on points in July 2011 to take his British and Commonwealth belts and undefeated record - that Warren says could happen in June at a football stadium in a huge summer showdown.

Warren said, "I'm delighted that Tyson and Mick are working with us and he'll have his first fight on the Copper Box Arena show on Saturday 15th February. The plan is for both of them to come through their fights on the night and then the pair will meet in a massive rematch in June. Because it's the biggest fight out there for them and it's a fight that the public want to see the only place for it to happen would be a football stadium, a real summer extravaganza between the big men of British boxing before the World Cup. Tyson beat Dereck a few years ago and since then both of them have come on. Tyson has done fantastic, winning both here and abroad, and has marked himself as one of the world's most exciting heavyweights. Dereck's performances have been spot on recently, his weight is right and so his attitude and focus and he's a real handful for any heavyweight out there. I'm already excited by it, Chisora versus Fury is the biggest fight out there and it could certainly be a world title eliminator. But plans can be upset though. Chisora has a by no means easy fight against a hard and undefeated Ukrainian in Rudenko who's knocked out 16 of 24 opponents."

And further exciting news announced by Warren today confirmed that Fury's younger cousin, the all-action teenager Hughie, will also feature on the Copper Box Arena show.

The 19-year-old heavyweight has excited the boxing world with his devastating performances since turning professional last March and has blazed his way through 12 opponents, stopping seven early, inside a year.

Warren added, "Joining Tyson on the card is his cousin Hughie who is a top prospect in his own right. He's certainly not hanging about as you can from his twelve fight in under year which shows that he's focused and dedicated to the sport. I named him as one of my picks for this year and he's an exciting hard-hitting talent who will thrill the fans with his performance."

Also confirmed for the Copper Box Arena show is WBO European Super-Middleweight Champion Frank Buglioni's challenger. The unbeaten London sensation, who captured the title last November with a crippling one punch body shot against Stepan Horvath, will make the first defence of his belt against the experienced former Italian champion Gaetano Nespro.

Penge welterweight Bradley Skeete steps up to the biggest challenge of his career when he meets former WBA World Welterweight Champion Vivian Harrison. Skeete won the English title last November defeating the tough former European Champion Colin Lynes, but will now be really tested by the rock-hard Guyana born, New York based, fighter who's faced a who's who of boxing. The Vacant WBA Intercontinental title is expected to be contested for and is subject to confirmation from the WBA.

Finally, Romford ace Tony Conquest will challenge for the Commonwealth Cruiserweight Championship against Australian Daniel Ammann on the card. Conquest has come back from his loss to Neil Dawson in December 2012 with two wins, a first round stoppage of David Vincena and defeating Wadi Camacho - despite being dropped in the first two rounds - to win on points.

Completing the Copper Box Arena card will be the highly touted Erith super-bantamweight talent Lewis Pettitt; the exciting Islington welterweight Georgie Kean; Canning Town lightweight ace Billy Morgan and former WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion Steve Collins son, the hard-hitting cruiserweight, Steve Collins Jnr.

Tickets, priced at £40, £50, £70 and £120, are available from Eventim on 0844 249 1000 or online at www.eventim.co.uk

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Decent card for early in the year. Builds up some press between chis and fury.

Oh yes we get a load of pointless build up to a rematch between one joke heavyweight and a guy who resembles a beached whale half the time.

Just don't watch if it offends you.

I mean if the liklihood of two domestic big guys who are good enough to hit each other clean and poor enough to get hit plenty fighting it out doesn't appeal to you, maybe this isn't the sport for you.

Presume you lifted that rather than write it yourself Hampo? Or are you gearing up for a career in promotion...??!

blazed his way through 12 opponents, stopping seven early, inside a year

bit of an oxymoron there........

Still will give it a watch all the same.

It's a press release, if you check the journal I've put a new section on their for press releases

Hard to see know if any of those fights will be competitive. No doubt Warren will add a lot of.domestic fights to the card.

Mismatches have always existed when blooding fighters but Match room and Warren are taking it to a whole.new level. The paying public got short changed with some very poor undercards last year. The biggest thing about this card is that it sets up Fury v Chisora in the future. Frank needs to add a quality domestic fight to the bill.

How do we see the rematch going? A Chisora who isn't a fat tub of lard beats Fury for me. Despite his rolls at 235lb he can still set a good pace and has a good chin. Points victory for Chis.

Reckon it'll be a good match-up as Fury has improved also, is more experienced and has since been operating at a higher level.

Want to think a 230lb Del topples him but have a sneaking suspicion he troubles him early but Fury stops Del late.

Would prefer Fury to win, have already seen chisora with a Klitchko and would like to see how fury fights without a major size advantage(although no prizes for a correct prediction).

I think Fury wins one way or another. If he fights like he did against Kevin Johnson then he wins easily.

Chisora got rocked badly in his last fight. That coupled with him getting splattered by Haye I even see Fury maybe stopping him late on

Chisora is a similarly soft punching boxer as Cunningham but with a better chin and bigger bulk so he won't get bullied like SC. Hence can see him doing a similar job early (Fury won maybe 1 round before the ko and also had a 10-8 against him) and lasting longer than SC but his stamina could be an issue in which case Fury might eventually land enough to get a championship round stoppage.

I'd back Chisora. I don't rate Fury's power as being any better than Del's and his speed and workrate definitely isn't as good.

A stoppage either way seems unlikely, but if either gets stopped I'd say it's Fury. His power isn't going to be much better than when they fought first and he couldn't make much of a dent then, so don't see him stopping a fitter, more mobile Chisora. Chisora did send Fury reeling with his flurries a couple of times he just couldn't keep it up for more than a round or two.

What's the status with Channel 5?

Interesting Team Fury stayed clear of Matchroom. I've never heard the Fury's say anything.negative about Matchroom. Maybe Fury has a similar arrangement with Warren that Frampton has in that it only stretches as far as using the TV platform.

That's the impression I got, they seemed quite keen to stress that Mick was still promoter and Boxnation was simply the TV outlet. Which would appear to kick C5 into touch.....

Mick Hennessy is saying this is a load of cobblers?

Not impossible Alex, would not be the first time recently Warren has jumped the gun in announcing fights. Did it with the unification for Burns and Wilder for Chisora. Will be interesting to see what happens now. Have to think Channel 5 will be cooling on boxing. Have backed Fury for a few years and the first time he is in a genuinely exciting fight he decamps to sky box office.

Really?

When the story first broke, that was being peddled on Twitter, but I thought it had all been sorted out and clarified now and that Team Fury had confirmed it all?

Also, which Fury fight was on SBO?

None top hat, but the Haye fight was planned to be. I don't know what is happening. Was responding to Alex's comment above.

Oh, ok, sorry, now I gets ya.

Didn't realise that it had been sorted TopHat, but I did read a lot on Twitter stating that is wasn't true according to Hennessy.

Yeh, think that was when people were suggesting Fury had switched promoters, not just that he was appearing on BN.

Peter Fury has apparently confirmed Hughie will be fighting on Channel 5 in March.

Maybe on a Degale Shopping Centre undercard?

Stalker confirmed he was on the card after moving over too