I’LL DRIVE ’EM WILD
Fury vows he won’t slip up
TYSON FURY has pledged he will not slip up against Francesco Pianeta – with Deontay Wilder watching on from ringside.
Former heavyweight world champion Fury fights for only the second time since November
2015 on Saturday on the undercard of Carl Frampton’s clash with Luke Jackson in Belfast.
The Gypsy King is the odds-on favourite to easily beat his
33-year-old opponent, who has lost twice since last October.
WBC heavyweight king Wilder will be ringside for the clash with a winter showdown against Fury already pencilled in for November.
But Fury, 30, insists that Pianeta is capable of spoiling his plans for a crack at another title.
He said: “Of course I’m aware of what is at stake. from DECLAN TAYLOR in Belfast
I definitely can’t afford to slip on the banana skin.
“It’s a very serious matter this weekend and all eyes are on me. “Fighting Wilder may as well be a million years in the future – I have just got to concentrate on fighting this guy in front of me.
“If he beats me, he would go on to something big, it’s lifechanging for him. If I can’t beat him then I can’t beat the rest of them.
“And if I don’t do what I think I can do then I’ll get chinned in 10 seconds and it will be good night Vienna, see you later Tyson Fury and all hail Francesco Pianeta.”
Fury is battling to get his hands back on a heavyweight belt after losing the WBA, WBO and IBF titles he won by defeating Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
He was stripped of the IBF strap within a month and later vacated the remaining two as he battled against drug abuse, alcoholism and depression.
Should he come through against Italian Pianeta and then do the business against WBC champ Wilder, undefeated Fury will clinch the only one of the four major titles he has never held.
And he admits it would taste even sweeter this time around.
Fury added: “It’ll be better this time because it’s got more pain in it.
“Before my life went quite smoothly actually, whatever I wanted I got and wherever I wanted to be I ended up there.
“I never really knew any heartache or sadness.
“I didn’t know what I had that was good until it was gone. It’s typical, isn’t it? You don’t know how good you’ve got it until you haven’t got it anymore.”