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HATTON GIVES FURY WARNING

Tyson should have let it be

- From Chris McKenna in Las Vegas

TYSON FURY is famous for a post-fight sing song in the ring.

But this weekend in Las Vegas he may find himself out of tune. Not when he has a mic in his hand, but during his WBC heavyweigh­t title clash with Deontay Wilder. That is according to the American’s trainer, Jay Deas, who questioned Fury’s decision to drop coach Ben Davison.

And he compared the move to The Beatles duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney splitting up as Fury opted to bring in SugarHill Steward as his head trainer.

“To me, him and Ben have magic together,” said Deas. “They’ve been through so much together. Ben did a tremendous job for Tyson and Tyson for Ben. I don’t know if two people would have the same chemistry.

“To use an English example, there is a Lennon-McCartney thing going on there. Separately they’re fantastic, writers and musicians and everything, but together they were magic. There is that aspect of the Fury-Davison relationsh­ip.

“I think there is cause for people to be concerned because chemistry is not something you get easily and in boxing it can take a while.” Deas and Wilder have been together since the Alabama man walked into his gym in 2006.

Less than two years later, Wilder was on the Olympic podium with a bronze medal at Beijing 2008.

And Deas has high praise for Fury, insisting: “Anybody who takes him lightly is an absolute fool.

“He’s a brilliant boxer, he is phenomenal at what he does. He’s so unorthodox, he is so athletic. He has a lot in common with Deontay. They’re both an anomaly.”

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