
DAVID ADELEYE has felt the Fury and now wants the Heavyweight division to feel his power.
The young Londoner has become a regular in the training camps of heavyweight king Tyson Fury and was again drafted in for preparations ahead of Fury’s Wembley showdown with Dillian Whyte and was on duty again for the December match with Derek Chisora.
Following his first Fury experience in Las Vegas, promoter Frank Warren made him his busiest pandemic boxer, with five behind closed doors fights in front of the BT Sport cameras that boosted his profile.
Matt Gordon, Phil Williams, Danny Whitaker and Dave Preston were impressively blown away and just couldn’t handle his heavy-handed punching.
It was a lot tougher in April 2021 when he leapt up in levels and was pushed all the way by Poland’s Kamil Sokolowski, before taking a close decision after six rounds.
Adeleye made it a magnificent seven wins as a professional in July of the same year when crowds had returned stopping Mladen Manev inside three rounds before taking out Dominik Musil in four.
The 27-year-old fought on the Fury bill at Wembley Stadium where he stopped the resilient Chris Healey inside four rounds. He got to double figures as a pro at York Hall in December when he stopped Elvis Garcia in two rounds before becoming WBO European champion in February with a second round stoppage of the previously unbeaten Dmytro Bezus.
The Londoner was a Junior ABA champion in 2013 and won the Senior ABA Novices in 2017 before winning the Senior ABAs the following year.
He also represented England in an international against Denmark in 2018 and romped to gold at the British Universities and Colleges Sport Boxing Championships.
During his amateur career, he studied at the University of Wolverhampton, where he graduated in 2019 with a degree in Business Management.