Tony Harrison has signed with Salita Promotions.
Harrison will make his return to the ring at middleweight on July 26 against Edward Diaz as the co-feature of Claressa Shields-Lani Daniels at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
Harrison, 29-4-1 (21 KOs), will fight for the first time since his March 2023 stoppage loss to Tim Tszyu in Australia. Harrison, a 34-year-old from Detroit, will return to the ring in his hometown with a new promoter. Harrison upset Jermell Charlo in December 2018 to become the WBC junior middleweight titleholder. He would lose the belt to Charlo in the rematch, nearly a year to the date of their first bout.
Diaz, 15-6 (12 KOs), enters the contest following a third-round knockout win over Juan Martinez in April. Before that bout, he was knocked out by Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz. Gonzalez-Ortiz would go on to fight Edgar Berlanga, who would stop him in one round.
Diaz, a 34-year-old from El Congo, Dominican Republic, holds a win over former contender Mark DeLuca and was stopped by current WBC junior welterweight titleholder Alberto Puello.
“We are excited to get back in there and get to work,” said Harrison via a press release. “It’s been a minute, but we are going to roll out like George Foreman did for his comeback. I have a short window left, so we are going to be active, keep winning, and eventually get back to the mountain top.”Other undercard bouts announced were heavyweight Pryce Taylor, 8-0 (6 KOs) of Brooklyn, New York, facing veteran Robert Simms, 12-4-1 (3 KOs), of Saginaw, Michigan, in an eight-round bout. Women’s junior welterweight Samantha Worthington, 11-0 (7 KOs), of Lexington, Kentucky, will face Victoire Piteau of Saint-Maur, Indre, France, in a WBA interim junior welterweight title fight. Starting the main card on DAZN will be women’s featherweight Caroline Veyre, 9-1, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, facing Licia Boudersa, 23-3-2 (4 KOs) of Lille, Nord, France, in a WBC women’s featherweight eliminator.
