By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Emanuel Steward was very impressed with heavyweight Tyson Fury’s 12 round decision win last Saturday night against Dereck Chisora. Steward, who recently started training the 23-year-old Fury, plans on working Fury’s next fight. Steward couldn’t work the Fury-Chisora fight because he had a television commitment for HBO.
According to Ringtv, Steward sees Fury as the heavyweight to take over the division once the Klitschkos retire from boxing at some point in the future. Steward’s praise of Fury means a lot, because Steward is rarely this high on heavyweight. Indeed, the last heavyweight that Steward was excited about was Wladimir Klitschko, and Steward has been training for the past seven years.
Fury was very raw before Steward started working with him recently, but in the short amount of time that he’s been able to work on Fury’s technique, Fury is starting to mimic a lot of the things that Wladimir does in the ring. He doesn’t have Wladimir’s jab, right hand or left hook, but Fury is still trying and looking good.
Fury is a good young heavyweight, but David Price might be a better prospect than Fury. However, Price is 28-years-old and with a questionable chin. Fury, with his better chin, higher work rate and superior footwork, he could quickly surpass Price. He might be good enough now to beat Price in a 12 round battle simply because of his chin. If Fury can take Price’s shots, he’ll beat him because it’s doubtful that Price could have taken the shots that Fury was landing on Chisora for 12 rounds without getting knocked out.
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