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. Hill recalls what it was like being in the corner with Emanuel Steward, what attributes make a good trainer, and how his career as a police officer on the streets of Detroit helped prepare him to be a better corner man.It struck an emotional chord for a moment when his name was broached. Steward was a father figure to Hill and taught him nearly everything he knows about boxing. Hill, a former Detroit Police officer, remembers going to the gym with Emanuel as early as 4 or 5 years old. 25, 2012 the famous Kronk Gym in Detroit was shut down and now Steward's nephew, Sugar Hill is planning to rebuild the famous gym sometime this year. It says a whole lot about the man that he didn't have one enemy in a sport where making enemies can be easier than making a fight.Īfter Emanuel Steward passed away on Oct. Steward was also the lead analyst for HBO Boxing but he never forgot about his humble beginnings and he would often give money out of his own pocket to down and out fighters. He also helped guide the sport in a positive direction in the post Muhammad Ali era and Kronk Gym, which Emanuel owned, was where Emanuel Steward turned many fighters into world champions. Some of the more notable fighters Steward has trained include Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, and Tommy Hearns. Steward was an inductee of the International Hall of Fame, the World Boxing Hall of Fame, and has trained 41 world champions throughout his career. (CBS) Too often the sport of boxing caters to the loudest member of the group, promoting fighters who are obsessed with themselves despite the fact that their achievements in and out of the ring leave something to be desired.Įmanuel Steward was not one of those people.
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