Tyson Fury has admitted he only spent five weeks training for Francis Ngannou despite claiming his camp was three months long.
Heavyweight champion Fury controversially beat Ngannou last October despite being dropped in the crossover fight. The Brit got the nod by a single point on the judges’ scorecards with the damage he sustained delaying his undisputed clash against fellow champion Oleksandr Usyk, as they were expected to meet in December but now fight on February 17.
Fury told TNT Sports before the fight: “This is why I’m putting in a 12-week training camp instead of a six-week camp, which I have usually done for [Deontay] Wilder and [Dillian] Whyte.” Fury has now made clear that he was joking about training for three months whilst stating his training camp for Usyk will only be five weeks.
Fury flew out to Saudi Arabia on New Year’s Eve for his training camp and has been in the Middle East ever since. Despite butting heads with Usyk on numerous occasions, Fury has insisted there is no personal feud between the two whilst praising the Ukrainian for his faith in God.
“I’ll bring in some southpaw left-handed fighters for sparring obviously, just the same stuff as usual. What can you do for a fighter? Can’t do much for me or him. It’s a boxing match, if he’s better than me he will beat me. If I’m better than him, I’ll beat him and that’s it. No more or less to it,” Fury said.
