Freddie Roach on Fury’s Corner

I think he's right. Fury does need to be more offensive.

I said it before the fight and I think the point stands; if your game is around very rarely getting hit and only hitting your opponent slightly more often than you, you're in danger of losing rounds and therefore fights that you should win clearly. Especially if you get knocked down.

 

Poor show from Roach to say this publicly. If he had any issues, they should've been dealt with behind closed doors instead of undermining Davison like this.

Besides, Fury won the fight, so Davison's gameplan worked, it was the judging that cost him, not his tactics.

 

It will be interesting to hear Tyson’s responce to this. I have never really been much of a fan of Roach
to be honest, and I’m not at all surprised he has come out with this stuff. I know he’s ill, but he is a very bitter man. Just remembering the stuff he said about Khan when he left him, even though Amir was respectful was pretty uncalled for.

If Tyson was silly enough to implemenent his strategy, Wilder would have cleaned him out.

 

He won though

 

Fury does need to be more offensive at times, not because he doesn't win almost every round, but because he only wins every round by a few pitter patter punches. Boxing is corrupt, it isn't fair, and if you're the B-side in the opponent's back yard then you're gambling if you leave doubt in the judges' minds. Even when he outboxed Klitschko I was still expecting him to get jobbed on the cards.

 

There was a couple of times that Wilder was hurt but we’ve seen a number of times his opponents getting bingo’d when they’ve gone in for the finish. A vulnerable Wilder is a very dangerous fighter. I was saying before the fight, fighters have got greedy with Wilder and been made to pay for it. Fury boxed the right way. It’s incompetent/corrupt judging that’s the problem not Fury outboxing an opponent rather than knocking them out.

 

I'd agree with this. People will scream that it's not fair, but you're taking a risk if you limit your output to a handful of punches per round.

Mayweather used to school fighters by landing twenty quality shots a round, dropping opponents from time to time and never going down. If you're landing six or seven shots on average you run a big risk and Tyson paid for it.

 

Out of order that, I think he's trying to worm his way into a new job.

 

No need to say it in public and to be fair Fury won everywhere bar the scorecards

 

He just wants to train Fury..

 

It's not just about knocking him out though. It's about convincingly, unequivocally winning rounds rather than sneaking rounds.

Fury tries to sneak rounds by landing six punches to his opponents four. Roach is used to working with guys who land a lot more than that.

 

Fury drew with Wilder so Roach makes good points

 

I totally agree mate - Fury throws very little punches, throws punches that barely make contact with skin then sticks his hands up in the air at the end of most rounds to sway the judges.

I still have Wilder narrowly winning the fight and Roach is correct - those who pong out arenas will rarely get decisions.

 

Don't start me off