Tyson Fury’s resurrection against Deontay Wilder in 2018 will be haunting the WBC champ ahead of rematch, says trainer
TYSON FURY’S resurrection against Deontay Wilder will be haunting the WBC champ ahead of their rematch. The 6ft 7in Bronze Bomber has stopped every single rival he has faced — except the Gypsy King. Fury somehow twice rose from the Staples Center canvas in their December 2018 heavyweight thriller. The Brit’s incredible recovery from a […]
TYSON FURY’S resurrection against Deontay Wilder will be haunting the WBC champ ahead of their rematch.
The 6ft 7in Bronze Bomber has stopped every single rival he has faced — except the Gypsy King.
Fury somehow twice rose from the Staples Center canvas in their December 2018 heavyweight thriller.
The Brit’s incredible recovery from a brutal 12th-round flooring sparked memes and GIFs and his new trainer, Javan “Sugarhill” Steward, believes that Lazarus-like return gives his man the edge.
Ahead of the February 22 rerun, the nephew of Kronk Gym legend Manny Steward said: “Tyson is already in Deontay’s head because he is the only man who has taken his biggest punches and not stopped.
“They had an epic first fight and Deontay will remember it just as well as Tyson does. Deontay will remember all the things that happened in the lead up to it.
“Both fighters have been here before and done it all before. They have respect for each other and don’t have to do the talking anymore.
“Tyson does not need to say anything now — Deontay promised to knock him out the first time and he could not do it — that will be in Deontay’s head.”
Fury, 31, weighed just over 18st for his September win against Otto Wallin — and needed the judges’ scorecards after suffering a horror gash against the Swedish underdog.
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Dad, John, was fuming with his son’s new slimline look, the lightest he had been since 2015, and demanded he forgot about the six-pack and bulked up again.
And Steward, whose Kronk Gym is famous for creating monster punchers like Detroit icon Tommy Hearns, confirmed Fury is beefing up in his bid to score a shock KO.
He said: “There are certain little things that turn a big punch into a knockout punch.
“One of the things we have talked about is being a bit heavier, not too heavy, but maybe pack on seven more pounds of muscle. Tyson definitely feels comfortable at that weight.”
The union with Steward, plus cousin and ex-middleweight world champ Andy Lee, is a decade in the making.
Lee was working with Steward at the Kronk around 2009 when Fury jetted in and blew the gym away with his skills and personality.
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Because Wladimir Klitschko was Steward’s star pupil at the time, six years before Fury would dethrone the champ, it was only a brief but unforgettable fling.
Steward recalled: “The first day he walked in everyone thought he was the biggest, tallest white guy anyone in Detroit had ever seen.
“But as soon as he got in the ring and started moving around, I was amazed that a such a big man could move like that.”
