Tyson Fury’s uncle and former trainer, Peter Fury, has once again voiced his disapproval of the tactics employed during the Gypsy King’s loss to Oleksandr Usyk. The respected coach, who was the trainer behind Fury’s triumph over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, had previously expressed his disappointment with his brother John and the rest of Tyson’s team after the heavyweight’s first professional loss.
John Fury, a former boxer with a record of eight wins in 13 bouts, faced backlash for shouting instructions to Tyson, overshadowing head trainer SugarHill Steward during the high-stakes bout. Peter Fury has doubled down on his critique, slamming the corner team for their lack of clear guidance and professionalism.
Speaking with ex-world champ Carl Froch on his YouTube channel, Peter stated: “I’m an avid believer of one man should give the instructions whether it be who is the trainer there? So, if his dad’s the trainer, let his dad do the talking, if the other guy’s a trainer, from America, let him do the talking. But when three or fours talking, how are you going to listen to all that? I don’t think he listened to any of it anyway.”
Peter continued: “So whether it was emotions in there, everybody was speaking, I’ll tell you what it looked like to me, it looked like it was all mates and they were just trying to gee him on or something, I don’t know. There didn’t seem to be any, there was no professionalism in that corner as far as one clear voice stating what he needed to do.
“You’re not going to listen if four people are – if you’re tired and you’re coming into the latest stages of a fight and you’ve got a man in front of you, you’re trailing that fight and you know you’ve been hit badly, and you need to come back from that. You’ve got all that to deal with and you have got four people trying to talk to you, I’m afraid that’s not happening.”
He added: “There probably was one voice stating what he needed to do but all four of them or three or four of them were giving it at the same time, and all different instructions. It was at the same time and all the instructions were different which means its a scramble, isn’t it?”
Froch also asked Peter if he thinks the Gypsy King can avenge his defeat to Usyk, and he was adamant that the tactics needed to be perfect for that to happen. Peter said: “I think he can you know, we’re looking at a big man, six foot eight six foot nine, who wanted to have a tippy tappy boxing match with somebody who’s an elite mover and an elite boxer so I think they got the strategies all wrong for that fight.”
Fury took immediate action in response to losing his WBC world title to Usyk by invoking the rematch clause, setting up an opportunity for him to regain his title on December 21. Usyk made history by becoming the first man since Lennox Lewis to secure all the major heavyweight world titles, following his victory over Fury in Saudi Arabia earlier this year.
However, not all five world titles will be at stake in the rematch, as Usyk has been stripped of the IBF title. This title will now be contested when Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois face off at Wembley in a Battle of Britain on September 21.
