Roach: Fury’s trainer wrong over tactics

London: Tyson Fury’s trainer Ben Davison has been questioned over his fight tactics by Freddie Roach - even though the American was in the Briton’s corner for the thrilling draw with Deontay Wilder.

Hall of Fame trainer Roach, 58, helped Fury’s team for the bout on 1 December. He wanted Fury to be “more offensive”, criticising Davison for using similar tactics to those given to featherweight Isaac Lowe on the undercard that night.

“Why are you treating these people the same?” Roach said.

“Ben gave the exact same instructions to the 126lbs fighter as he did the heavyweight fighter,” Roach, who was cut man for the fight, told Fox Sports.

“They are not the same and his instructions were the same and choreographed for both guys. I was a little disappointed. “He did hurt Wilder a couple of times and I was disappointed that he didn’t get a chance to finish him.”

However, a number of boxing figures have criticised Roach for his comments.

Dave Coldwell, trainer of Tony Bellew prior to his retirement from boxing, tweeted: “Wow. Really disappointing from Freddie.

“A great established trainer, publicly running down the young coach who didn’t have a problem with bringing him on board in order to help Tyson can only be a desperate move to pinch his fighter. You can’t fault the job Ben Davison did.”

British light-middleweight Anthony Fowler wrote: “I’ve met Freddie before and he was nothing but respectful and a nice guy but this is poor.

“Ben Davison did an amazing job, they clearly won the fight, game plan was spot on. Really disappointed with this.”-