His first fight working with ‘The Gypsy King’ resulted in an incredible change in strategy to destroy the hitherto unbeaten Deontay Wilder inside seven rounds in Las Vegas in February. Now ‘SugarHill’ is doing what his uncle used to do, passing on that Kronk mentality to Fury and others. That’s like four or five weight divisions.” You’ve got guys now who are like 273 boxing guys at 202. He always said they should make a super-heavyweight division. “It’s not really a heavyweight division any more, it’s like a super-heavyweight division. “He was saying ‘Tyson Fury is the new heavyweight division.’ This is when he was training Wladimir (Klitschko) at the same time so he obviously knew the heavyweight division was changing. Why Manny Steward said Tyson Fury would dominate “He said he was gonna be the next heavyweight champion of the world – a dominant heavyweight – this is the new heavyweight division here,” explained ‘SugarHill’. Manny, who had earlier steered another Briton Lennox Lewis to the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, believed it was the way the division was evolving – with ever bigger fighters – which would see Fury’s skills catapult him to the very top of the tree. Just like his uncle, he would prefer the positives to glance off his sides, and swallow the nails. So that’s what I remember from him right away. SugarHill Steward embraces his famous uncle Emanuel’s shadow and is now beginning to make a big name for himself. “But I was like ‘well that’s fine but can he do it when he in the ring boxing?’ Hitting the bag and stuff everything was great. But while new trainers Javan ‘SugarHill’ Steward Andy Lee clearly did a sensational job in helping Fury perform what Adam Booth described as as much of. And then watching him move around, the way he was moving, I was like ‘Oh’. Emanuel Steward trained Tommy Hearns and Wladimir Klitschko, masterminded Oliver McCall’s win against Lennox Lewis, who then became an undisputed champion at Kronk and his legacy lives on with. When Tyson Fury destroyed Deontay Wilder in their Las Vegas rematch in February, he did so by unleashing a blisteringly aggressive gameplan on a completely outgunned ‘Bronze Bomber’. “(Fury was) One of the biggest white guys I’ve seen in boxing, walking through the door, and talking about how he’s gonna be the next heavyweight champion of the world. Their mental strength, toughness and resilience is. Javan ‘SugarHill’ Steward – Manny’s nephew, another Kronk disciple and now Fury’s trainer – told the Black Eye Barber Shop Show podcast what he remembered of Fury walking into the Kronk for the first time back in 2010, and the impression he made on his revered uncle. The late Emanuel Steward (Lee’s former trainer whose memory binds the Fury camp together used to say champions were built from the inside. The great Emanuel Steward passed away back on Octoat the age of 68 – but not before he’d predicted that Tyson Fury would be the future of a ‘new heavyweight division’.įury spent time in Steward’s legendary Kronk Gym in Detroit around a decade ago, and Steward – one of boxing’s greatest trainers ever – saw even then the special traits which would later make him the lineal champion of the world.
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