The 37-year-old will face the Russian puncher in the main event at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on April 11 in his first fight since the second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024.

Sugar Hill Steward was his trainer for that fight, and the six before it, but it sounds like he will not be involved in Fury’s comeback if the Gypsy King is to be believed.

Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs), the two-time world heavyweight champion, has spent the last eight weeks training in Thailand and there was no sign of Steward or any other head trainer during that mini-camp.

And now Fury says he will go it alone against Makhmudov, like Clubber Lang did in "Rocky III", when the iconic character, portrayed by Mr. T, famously declared “I live alone, I train alone”.

 When asked who will train him for the Makhmudov fight, Fury said: “I’m like Clubber Lang, I’m going to train alone. 

“I know how to do it, I know how to go 12 rounds, I know how to push myself  and I know how to take a rest when I need to.



“People try and make it like rocket science but it’s not. As long as you train hard, eat well and get plenty of rest ... I’m an experienced veteran in this game.

“Sometimes you need people to point stuff out to you and remind you of certain aspects of it all but what I don’t know about my own body now, I’m never going to know.”

Fury and Makhmudov were both in London on Monday for the press conference to formally announce their showdown. It is unclear whether Fury plans to return to Thailand for the remaining eight weeks of his camp or head back to his home town of Morecambe.

 But the absence of a senior trainer will be a first for Fury, who has worked with a series of high profile coaches during his career.

Initially, he kept things in the family, training under his late uncle Hughie and then another of his uncles Peter. His father John has also been a regular presence at his training camps over the years.



Ben Davison was then brought in as Fury battled back down from a weight of nearly 400 pounds in order to challenge for the world heavyweight title again.

It was Sugar Hill, the nephew of Kronk Godfather Emanuel Steward, who would lead him to his destructive world title victory over Deontay Wilder in 2020, with Andy Lee working as his assistant in camp.