Wilder: Steward Wouldn't Have Allowed Fury to Beat Klitschko

[Ruthless-RKO]

"Wilder: Steward Wouldn't Have Allowed Fury to Beat Klitschko"

Deontay Wilder doesn’t know what Wladimir Klitschko was thinking when he fought Tyson Fury. The unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion does know that Emanuel Steward wouldn’t have allowed such a passive performance from Klitschko.

The late trainer had a strong bond with the former heavyweight champion and often motivated him in the corner to do the things Steward knew were necessary to win.

Klitschko didn’t display any sense of urgency during his 12-round, unanimous-decision defeat to Fury in November 2015. When asked during a conference call Monday if a Klitschko trained by Steward would’ve lost to Fury that night in Dusseldorf, Germany, Wilder emphatically replied, “Oh, hell f*ck no! I’m sorry for my language, but no, he don’t [lose to Fury]. No, he don’t. Emanuel woulda been all up on that boy in that corner.

“Like I said, Emanuel would make you believe what he was seeing. When you finally believe in him, you’re like, ‘Damn! It was there all along. I don’t know how I didn’t see it.’ He [saw] things before it even happened. He was great at that. And they had a bond. They had a great relationship. It was like Cus D’Amato and [Mike] Tyson a little bit. They had that great bond, just like me and Jay [Deas] got a great bond in the corner. We understand each other.”

Steward helped rebuild Klitschko’s psyche following technical knockout losses to Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster in 2003 and 2004. They won 16 straight fights together before Steward died due to complications from colon cancer in October 2012.

“With Klitschko, I definitely feel that the teaching of Emanuel Steward is lacking a little bit,” Wilder said. “But, I mean, he’s not to blame. Emanuel Steward was a very, very smart trainer. The things that he could see and how he could get in his fighter’s head to see what he saw, and [get them to] actually execute on it, man, it was unbelievable. Emanuel, he wasn’t a great trainer for no reason.

“That’s why I think Klitschko was the best when he had Emanuel in his corner. To hear that voice, to hear it not only while Emanuel was inside the ring, but while he was on the outside as well, too. And now I just feel that, since he’s gone, it’s like more what Wladimir wanna do or what he sees, not what his other trainers see. It’s so much different. It’s like, ‘I’ve learned this style for so long. [Now] I’m under the coaching of somebody else, and now I’ve gotta learn from what he sees now. And it’s not the same teaching. It’s like I had a sensei, and now I’ve got really a student that’s still in the game.’ But Johnathon Banks does a great job, and he does what he can. So big ups to him.”

[Lackeos]

Steward could've probably prepared Wlad a lot better. But don't discredit the effectiveness of Fury's height, reach, and quality jabbing in that fight. Also, it wouldn't be surprising if Steward underestimated Fury a bit, because Fury really showed-up as a different fighter than we had seen in the past. If Steward had known that such a good version of Fury would show-up, I imagine Steward would've spent the training camp preparing Wlad to fight like Joe Frazier.

[gilgamesh]

He would've at least been advising him to throw punches.

[Ossyrules]

I can picture manny screaming at Wlad between rounds to let his hands go.

It's meaningless really though cos he unfortunately werent in the corner. As Tony Bellew would say, it is what it is. Fury beat the Wlad that showed up on the night

[Kalan]

Steward was a genius -- but not a magician. He made mistakes... Emmanuel was in the corners of Lewis, Harris, Klitschko, Taylor, and Hearns when they got knocked out by big underdogs.. Steward sometimes got you knocked out because he drove you to take chances maybe you shouldn't have.

I'll always remember Steward screaming at Lewis to "Get this MFer (Mike Tyson) OUT OF HERE!! He's DANGEROUS" and Lewis not looking at Steward, but sitting there with a cold and defiant look on his face that said, "I'm fighting this fight MY way."

Later a reporter asked Lewis why he didn't go after Tyson earlier like Steward was screaming at him to do... "I didn't want to do that.. Tyson is a very dangerous puncher and I wanted to soften him up with the jab for a few more rounds."

[Badhusker]

Someone should have told Wlad to attack Fury's body since he was so reluctant to throw and was just head hunting.
Hopefully we will see a different Wlad, and a real fight. Him vs Fury was the worst heavy fight I have ever seen. Fury won but was not impressive.