THE VIEW FROM THE CORNER
AS with any great heavyweight fight, nobody can say with certainty what will happen when Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte finally share a ring and trade punches on April 23 at Wembley Stadium. They will both have their ideas and their strategies and indeed those watching at home will no doubt have their opinions, too. But this is boxing – élite-level boxing at that – and no one watching, nor competing, can predict with confidence what will happen this coming weekend.
Doing their best, for the sake of Boxing News, are three leading UK coaches whose opinions and experiences vary: Jamie Moore, the trainer of Jack Catterall and Chantelle Cameron; Joe Gallagher, the trainer of Paul Butler and Natasha Jonas; and Tunde Ajayi, the trainer of Anthony Yarde. They do not claim to possess a crystal ball, nor any special kind of insight, but they are, like everyone else, intrigued to see what happens on Saturday night.
WHAT HAVE YOU MADE OF THE FIGHT’S UNUSUAL BUILD UP?
Last week I was thinking, ‘Is this even going to happen?’ We’ve heard hardly anything about it and yet it’s such a big fight. I hope it goes ahead and I hope it’s just a case of Dillian Whyte playing mind games and trying to get one on Fury
