Tyson Fury's sparring companion Sol Dacres has refuted claims that 'The Gypsy King' did not put together correctly for his crossover conflict with Francis Ngannou - suggesting the one motive Fury struggled to a controversial victory was due to how good Ngannou is. After an underwhelming cut up determination over his novice foe, Fury's father John insisted that his son merely hadn't accomplished sufficient conditioning and that was why it was such a detailed combat.

"He didn’t look right, everything had changed about him, his demeanour, his body. I was puzzled. He said he had been training but there is training and there is training," Fury Sr. advised the Metro by way of Freebets.com.

"If you’re going at your own pace no one is going to tell you otherwise, no one is going to offend you or kick you up the backside." But Dacres, who was in camp with Fury for 5 weeks within the lead-up to combat evening, claims this was not the case.

"John wasn’t really in the camp. It’s all good saying it in hindsight. I was there for five weeks. We were sparring hard, doing 12, 15 round sessions," he advised Seconds Out forward of his upcoming English heavyweight title defence towards David Adeleye on March sixteenth.

"I’ve been in previous camps and he was training just as hard as previous camps so it’s hard to say. It’s really more on him than anything. The training camp was preparing for a 12-round fight."

Fury did look extra fatigued than typical in the course of the contest however this may increasingly have had extra to do with the power and energy of Ngannou. The combat was a really bodily affair that noticed Fury try and pressure his will on the Cameroonian MMA star in typical Kronk trend.

However, Ngannou appeared the stronger man in there and was in a position to outmuscle his extra skilled foe on the within. Add to that, the fatiguing results of repeated concussive blows from a heavy-handed fighter like Ngannou and you've got a recipe for catastrophe.

In the top, Fury was in a position to do sufficient to nick the choice on two of the three judges scorecards however the combat will go down as one of many hardest exams of his profession regardless of the seemingly insurmountable odds stacked towards Ngannou.