Heavyweight Schedule for 2018

[Barry Halls]

Did Banks-Mitchell get cancelled? I thought it was just postponed.

[The Hammer]

Did Banks-Mitchell get cancelled? I thought it was just postponed.

No, it's on for May or June.

A date will soon be approved by HBO.

Banks wants to avenge his loss to Adamek, so if he beats Mitchell again, Loffler will try to make Banks-Adamek II.

[Weltschmerz]

Banks-Adamek II would be real cool.

[The Hammer]

Odlanier Solis will be fighting Leif Larsen on March 22.

[The Hammer]

Ruslan Chagaev is in Detroit, training with Emmanuel Steward's nephew Sugar Hill:




Derrick Chisora will be back on April 20.

[The Hammer]

David Price says how he responds to the defeat by Thompson will define him as a fighter.




Eddie Chambers says Alexander Povetkin is a coward and he doesn't really want to fight Wladimir Klitschko.




WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says they will probably make Krzysztof Wlodarczyk the WBC manadatory at heavyweight if he decides to move up. The WBC has a policy that permits any world titleholder to become the mandatory challenger at the next highest weight division if he moves up.

[The Hammer]

I wonder why the Wladimir Klitschko vs. Francesco Pianeta fight has been removed from the BoxRec schedule?



I realize BoxRec isn't always correct, but it would be unusual for them to remove it unless they were told it's not happening.

[The Hammer]

Wladimir Klitschko vs. Francesco Pianeta is now official:




Pianeta says he will shock the world by knocking Wladimir out:



Wladimir has a lot of respect for Pianeta:




Tomasz Adamek says he'll fight in May, and then look at a rematch with Jonathan Banks in the fall:

[The Hammer]

[The Hammer]

Andriy Rudenko (23-0, 15 KOs) returns on March 16 on a K-2 promotion in Kiev.




Tomasz Adamek denies rumors that he's fighting Tony Grano:




Klitschko-Pianeta poster: