SugarHill Steward has revealed that he is open to the idea of Tyson Fury training Anthony Joshua ahead of his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
Joshua was schooled by Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and subsequently surrendered the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight titles.
Merely two weeks later, Fury knocked out Deontay Wilder to retain the WBC title and establish himself as the number one heavyweight on the planet.
While the pair were previously considered to be on a collision course, there has recently been suggestion that they could join arms, with Fury having offered to train AJ for the rematch, as was reported by the Standard last month.
Fury’s trainer, SugarHill Steward, has now told talkSPORT that he’d be open to seeing it happen, “I mean, you look at the situation here, you have any other sport right; you have basketball, you got football, you got soccer, American football…”
“You got guys that are friends or very competitive champions, and you see people now, put together teams.”
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“They’re putting together dream teams or things like that, as far as basketball or football or anything other kind of sport like that.”
“These guys are joining up with each other, playing for the same team, to be successful.”
SugarHill clearly sees the value in fighters of Fury and Joshua’s calibre teaming up, with the idea-bouncing and trick-teaching likely to be mutually beneficial, even if it’s AJ doing the fighting in this case.
We don’t imagine this idea is actually going to come to fruition, but we’d be intrigued to see how Joshua could improve with the world’s best heavyweight by his side.
John Fury told BT Sport over the weekend that Tyson will be training brother Tommy for his bout with YouTuber Jake Paul on December 18th. Once that’s done and dusted, The Gypsy King’s schedule could be free…