Promoter Kalle Sauerland believes that boxing trainer Peter Fury can be compared to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
Guardiola is regarded as one of the best ever, while Fury has coached Tyson Fury to world title glory, and is currently overseeing the progress of fighters such as Matty Harris, Hughie Fury, and Savannah Marshall.
Harris fights Amine Boucetta in Telford tonight on the undercard to Abbas Baraou vs. Sam Eggington, shown live on DAZN.com ( click here to check availability in your region ).
“We got some great guys on the undercard,” Sauerland told BoxingScene.com of the coming fight night.
“Matty Harris will be returning with Peter Fury in his corner. Big addition, Peter Fury. He’s the Pep Guardiola of boxing.”
Fury was in charge in 2015 when his nephew Tyson Fury defeated then-champion Wladimir Klitschko.
“I think he’s a mastermind,” Sauerland continued. “If you look at the Tyson Fury-Klitschko fight, it was a mastermind. Ten years you had people trying to knock Klitschko’s head off; they all thought he had a glass chin because he was knocked out three times in his career.
“[Fury] was the first trainer who said, ‘No, no, we are not going to knock his head off, we are going to outbox him.’ He boxed his ears off for 12 rounds; it changed heavyweight boxing. So with Peter Fury, we are happy to have him back on board.”
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