TYSON FURY has controversially agreed to keep dad John as part of his corner team for the Oleksandr Usyk rematch.
The Gypsy King, 35, suffered his first professional defeat at the hands of the slick Ukrainian as he was beaten by split decision in their undisputed clash in Saudi Arabia two months ago.
Fury and Usyk, 37, will meet again for a second time when they run things back in the Middle East on December 21.
In the wake of the first fight, the likes of Carl Froch and Fury’s uncle Peter criticised the advice from the corner.
Trainer SugarHill Steward, assistant Andy Lee and dad John were all offering their opinion to Fury in between rounds.
Father John was at the centre of this criticism, but Tyson does not seem to have listened.
According to iFL TV, Fury’s manager, Spencer Brown, has confirmed the same three men will work the corner for the rematch.
Fury Sr had already raised eyebrows earlier in fight week when he headbutted a member of Usyk’s team and left himself covered in blood.
Then he was slammed in the wake of his son’s defeat as former British world champion Froch took aim at his corner work.
He told talkSPORT: “When you’ve got three people – including Big John Fury the fighting man – when you’ve got him in the corner shouting and screaming at you while you’ve got two other people giving you advice, that means you’re listening to absolutely nobody.
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“I thought that was terrible and really unprofessional in his corner. It was bad.”
And uncle Peter, who previously trained Tyson, told October Red: “There should only be one man in the corner, there shouldn’t be three or four.
“Some are too emotional in the corner and some are giving the wrong advice.
“I think the only one that spoke a little bit of sense in the last dying stretch of it was SugarHill, who said ‘put it on him’.
“When you go into fights, it doesn’t matter who it is, it could be a family member, but you’ve got to give precise clear information, and the thing I always say to the fighter is, ‘Are you listening, do you understand what I’ve just told you to do?’
“There were too many people, but maybe Tyson wants that? I don’t know, it’s been years since dealing with me.
“I don’t know what the situation is but clearly for me the game plan was wrong and only one should be speaking.
“How can you listen to all that? It’s going a bit panicky and it’s all over the place.”
