Tyson Fury’s trainer, Sugarhill Steward, has a simple fight strategy for the rematch with Oleksandr Usyk, saying: “Don’t get caught in the ninth round” on December 21. Sugarhill says that’s all there is to it.
Steward said he has yet to watch a replay of Fury’s 12-round split decision loss to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on May 18 earlier this year.
It is not clear why he did not see the replay, considering that the 36-year-old Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) should be prepared for this important fight. If Fury loses again, it will negatively affect the all-British clash between him and Anthony Joshua in 2025.
Will Sugarhill’s Simple Strategy Work?
Many boxing fans were and still are calling for Fury to fire Sugarhill after his loss to Usyk. Fans felt that Sugarhill was a limited trainer who only taught Fury how to use his size to maul his opponents. This has only worked effectively with Deontay Wilder and British fighters Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora.
They were ineffective when Fury tried the Sugarhill tactic against Francis Ngannou and Usyk. That’s all he has. In other words, junk in, junk outand Fury chose to keep Sugarhill rather than leave for a better trainer.
“I haven’t looked at the tape. I haven’t seen the tape yet. I just know that Tyson got hit in the ninth round, and I want to correct that,” said trainer Sugarhill Stewart to secondsout when asked if he watched the tape of his fighter Tyson Fury who was injured in the ninth round in his first fight against Oleksandr Usyk on May 18.
Sugarhill doesn’t say why he didn’t watch the tape of Fury’s loss because he just would have taken 36 minutes of time to sit down and discuss what he did wrong and come up with a better strategy than holding and leaning like he did. tried last time.
“I’m not into the weight thing. Heavyweights can fight at whatever weight they feel comfortable with,” Sugarhill said. “Tyson Fury was in shape for that fight. There’s no need to say, ‘I wasn’t in shape because then that’s like making an excuse.’ He was in shape for that fight, and he got knocked out in the ninth round.” I don’t know what to say.
Fury didn’t look in great shape for his fight last time out against Usyk. It looked like she was carrying some extra spices around her midsection, and her hips had huge chunks of visible fat that shouldn’t be there. Fury was in much better shape for his rematch against Deontay Wilder four years ago on February 22, 2020. He was more muscular and trim for that fight.
“Don’t get caught in the ninth round; that’s the plan. It doesn’t matter what round,” Sugarhill said of his game plan for the Fury rematch. “Just don’t knock you. Exactly what I thought before that fight. Nothing has changed. Nothing more, nothing more,” said an annoyed-sounding Sugarhill. “The champion that he is, the great fighter that he is, there was another great fight. You saw a great fight of **.
It wasn’t a great fight by any means between Fury and Usyk last May. Fury was out on his feet in the ninth round, taking numerous head shots, and saved by the referee, who stopped the action out of the sky to give an eight standing found. Many fans believe the referee saved Fury from being knocked out in that fight. It wasn’t a great fight if you were Fury. Usyk did not do well. He gassed after the ninth round and failed to finish a still injured Fury in the tenth.
“Just what me and Tyson talked about, and we talked about, ‘Don’t get caught.’ Always,” said Sugarhill when asked if the prediction for the rematch is Fury by knockout.
