![]() ![]() He’ll show up for the fight, and he’s willing to do things different in his training, and he hasn’t even spoken to Tyson, which is a far different Deontay Wilder than we saw before.” “I would have to say yes, Deontay can change,” Steward said. Someone who does believe Wilder can change and develop more of his boxing skills is Steward. For some reason, Deontay didn’t see that.” Mark Breland knows boxing and cared about Deontay. He really can’t blame anyone but himself. ![]() “Deontay thinks he’s better, than what he looked like (against Fury in the rematch),” one source stated. Wilder landed 36 total punches and threw 249 punches through the first seven rounds-which is over 100 more than he threw in the rematch. Wilder landed 25 jabs through the initial seven rounds of the first encounter, according to CompuBox stats, and threw his jab 159 times-18 more times than his total punch output (141) in the rematch. In the first fight, Wilder moved far better, and used his jab more often. The telling difference came in the power: Fury connected on 40 more power shots, 58-160 (36.3%), than Wilder’s 18-55 (32.7%) power connect rate. Numerous trainers said the same thing when they were told about the fiancée and the pad routine the night before the fight: “No wonder he had no legs.”Īccording to CompuBox stats, Fury landed 82-267 (31%) total punches, to Wilder’s 34-141 (24%). Three sources close to Wilder said the same exact thing: “Deontay just doesn’t listen to what he’s told he does what he wants to do.” In truth, he may have knocked his own legs out from underneath him. Olympic welterweight gold medalist, who wisely threw in the towel to end the second fight.Īfter the second fight, multiple sources in and around Wilder’s team revealed that “The Bronze Bomber” didn’t listen to Breland’s instructions to stay with the jab, and circle left, and Wilder did not help himself by allowing his fiancée, Telli Swift, to stay with him in their hotel suite during the week leading up to the fight, compounded by a heavy pad work session the night before the fight back in the studio section of the MGM Grand Garden Arena. He blamed his trainer, Mark Breland, the 1984 U.S. The question that hovers over Wilder entering this third installment is whether or not Wilder is open to change. I don’t know what he’s going to do exactly-we’re just making sure that everything is working right over here.” He has Malik Scott training him and we have to plan for the worst. I have to fair and I can’t say he’ll do the same thing as he’s done before. “I have to see if Deontay is able to do anything different. This is a far better Tyson Fury than before. What is important is that Tyson is able to move and function properly. “He’s going around 280, and spoke about going up to 300, but it’s not that important. The one big difference is we’ve had more time to work together, and he is very much a different Tyson Fury. “This fight will be pretty much be the same thing. ![]() ![]() “The game plan in the second fight was to use the jab, box him and control and keep coming at him, be aggressive and something that I’m used to and raised around with Emanual,” Steward said. Why fix a scheme that isn’t broken? Steward was masterful in putting that strategy together. Fury was 16½ pounds heavier than the first fight and the 273 was the third-highest he’s ever weighed for a fight (KO 4 Sefer Seferi, J276 pounds KO 4 Joey Abell, Feb. Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) weighed a career-high 231 pounds. SugarHill did a masterful job in training Fury (30-0-1, 21 knockouts) for the fight, and it looks like Team Fury may be using the same game plan for Fury-Wilder III on July 24, at the T-Mobile Arena. SugarHill sure had a lot to be proud of in Wilder-Fury II, using many of the tenets Steward had conveyed to him through time, like when Fury used his 273 pounds on the smaller Wilder as a body rest, wearing the former WBC titlist down, and eventually wearing him out at 1:39 of the seventh round. Javan “SugarHill” Steward had to catch himself when he heard that somewhere, Emanuel Steward, Hill’s uncle and renowned deceased Hall of Fame trainer, must have been smiling when Tyson Fury destroyed Deontay Wilder in seven rounds back on Februfor the Ring and WBC heavyweight championship. It struck an emotional chord for a moment when his name was broached. ![]()
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