British Heavyweight Champion Sam Sexton is using the powers of hypnotherapy as he heads into his crunch showdown with Hughie Fury this Saturday (12th May) at the Macron Stadium, Premium Suite, Bolton, exclusively live on free-to-air Channel 5.
The Norwich star has been working with hypnotherapist Matthew Robinson from Boxnosis as he makes the first defence of the Lonsdale belt against a dangerous challenger in Fury, who’s having his first fight back since his controversial loss to Joseph Parker last September.
Sexton believes that mind over matter will take him to victory over big-hitting Fury and continue his winning run using the technique that has stretched his last nine fights.
“It’s nothing like you see in films with a swinging watch in front of your eyes and going into trance,” Said Fury.
“A lot of it involves focusing on key words, like power, strength, accuracy and making me believe that I’m more powerful and stronger that anyone else,”
“It involves lots of different mind techniques to improve whatever area of my game I want to work on, for example one day I want to be faster, the next day stronger, the next day more endurance,”
“One day I might be tired coming into the gym from a hard session the day before and my mind is saying I’m too tired, but I can overcome that and put in a personal best session,”
“It’s about mental control and picking the information that I need to win the fight and not wasting my time on negative stuff in everyday life,”
“I’ve been through a lot in the last few years and sometimes my mind hasn’t been focused, but this has really helped me, It might not be for everyone but it works for me.”
“This is a massive fight for me against Fury, I’ve got my plans where I want to go, but I have to get past Fury first.”
Sexton v Fury is exclusively live on Channel 5 this Saturday from 9pm. Watch the undercard live on 5Spike from 7.30pm.
Sexton v Fury British Heavyweight Championship clash headlines an exciting card that features all-action Leeds talent Reece Cartwright, the IBF Youth World Middleweight Champion; Galway’s ‘Connemara Kid’ Peter McDonagh competes in a 10-round international super-featherweight contest and female boxing sensation Savannah Marshall, double Olympian and 2012 World Amateur Champion, makes her UK debut in an 8-round middleweight contest, and unbeaten super-featherweight prospect Yusuf Safa.
Completing the card, Morecombe super-lightweight Reece MacMillan, Southport super-lightweight John Dring, Stoke-on-Trent trio super-middleweight Luke Caci, middleweight Nathan Heaney and Shabaz Masoud, Chorley middleweight Mark Jeffers and Manchester super-bantamweight George Brennan.
Peter Fury: Hughie has power as well as skill these days
Peter Fury has warned the heavyweight division son Hughie Fury is developing the power to complement his undoubted technical skills.
Fury (20-1-KO10) was controversially denied a world title by a majority decision defeat to Joseph Parker in September 2017 and will challenge Sam Sexton for the British crown in Bolton on Saturday.
With his natural talent clear for all to see, father and trainer Peter Fury is encouraged by the increasing weight in the punches thrown by his son, who is still just 23 years of age.
Peter Fury said: “It’s fair to say his power has grown. He’s holding a lot more in his hands these days. It’ll be nice to some improvements when he gets in there on Saturday.
“If these fights become available, we’ll always take them. Safe to say, he’d fight for a world title tomorrow if it was available.
“This is not about business or blagging people to get your face on in the internet. It’s about winning and proving you’re the best. If Hughie can take meaningful fights, that’s all we want.
“God willing we get through this fight and he’s going to have three this year. He’ll be in a world level fight by the end of the year and hopefully we’ll force our way back to a mandatory position.”
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