Fury vs. Usyk II: John Fury out of the corner

Tyson Fury’s trainer SugarHill Steward has revealed that John Fury will NOT be in his corner during Saturday night’s rematch against unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk at Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena.

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DAZN reports that Papa Fury, John, will not be in Tyson’s corner during the fight. Some people believe there were too many voices in Fury’s corner during his showdown against unified champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) earlier this year on May 18, mixing up with different voices barking instructions at the embattled ‘Gypsy King’. ‘.

Having John in the corner wasn’t the reason Fury lost that fight, but it’s obviously a convenient scapegoat The fans are to blame for why their hero fell short. Fury fans need someone to blame for the fact that their Viking came up short against Usyk, because it would be too painful for them to admit that he simply wasn’t good enough.

The development of the fight wouldn’t have made a difference if John Fury hadn’t been helping. Sugarhill Steward had NO answers for Fury to deal with Usyk’s superior skills, movement, and athletic ability.

Steward seemed to have completely lost consciousness when things started to go wrong for the Gypsy King in the eighth round. Once Fury had his beak bloodied in the eighth round, SugarHill was unable to help him. Tyson was alone. His coach didn’t seem to know what to do. Juan had the right idea. ‘Attack, attack and attack.’

From what I saw, John was the only one who seemed to have useful advice in the corner that night. If anything, Fury should have left his trainer SugarHill and the other assistants and stayed with dad for the rematch.

The things SugarHill had taught Fury since joining him in 2019, such as tilting and roughing tactics, were useless against Usyk. He neutralized that naïve approach immediately, leaving Fury with nothing else to turn to.

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