American boxing legend Dmitry Salita has lauded Tyson Fury ahead of his heavyweight championship fight with Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium on April 23. He says that Whyte stands 'no chance' of beating Fury with the self-styled Gypsy King now one of the all time greatest heavyweights.
The fight will take place between mandatory challenger Whyte and the unbeaten Fury after Whyte beat Alexander Povetkin in a rematch last year. However, despite his credentials to be in the ring with Fury, Salita does not believe that Whyte stands much of a chance in the fight.
He complimented Fury and his relationship with trainer Sugarhill Steward, who he has been with since 2020, in an interview with Vegas Insider, saying: “Tyson Fury and trainer Sugar Hill's mentality, style and philosophy are very much in sync. They complete each other. They match, they make each other whole. I think Tyson is almost unbeatable with Sugar in his corner.
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“Dillian Whyte's trainer Harold Knight is one of the most unheralded and one of the biggest secrets in the sport of boxing, a great guy with a great boxing mind and I have a lot of respect for him. He came on the team before the Povetkin rematch but the difference in skills and talent between Fury and Whyte is so wide that I don’t think anyone can help him.
“Harold has added and will add to Dillian Whyte's preparations, but Sugar and Tyson come together like a puzzle, a perfect circle. I'm sorry to say this but I give Dillian Whyte no chance. The fight will go as long as Tyson Fury wants it to go, as long as he wants it to go.
"Tyson has fought at a higher level, he's at the peak of his career - I don't think Dillian Whyte is at his peak, I think he's over the hill. Even if he was at his peak he could not mess with Tyson. Dillian is a solid, world-class heavyweight, it's an exciting fight for British boxing, but Tyson Fury is one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.”
Salita has also had his say on a future fight for Fury, should he decide not to retire after the fight, as promised, with American Jarrell Miller. Miller was lined up for a world championship fight with Anthony Joshua in 2019 before multiple failed drug tests from the now 33-year-old.
He has been out of the ring for four years but has been training with Fury and Salita is targeting a future fight between the American and the world champion. he said: “Jarrell has been out of the ring for close to four years, training with the best heavyweight in the world goes to show where Jarrell's mind is at. He wants to come back to that high level of fighting.
"He's training in the UK, he's going to have an opportunity to interact with the fans and the press, and to me, he's owning up to the past and wants to train and compete at the highest level.
“Being in that world championship atmosphere, being in that training camp where Tyson Fury is training for a big heavyweight title defence is great for Jarrell. No matter how good you are, you can always learn from the high-level people in your team, so Jarrell will definitely learn from being around Tyson.
"I think he has three or four years of high-level performance left and from my conversations with him, he's very focused on making the best of it in every way. Him going to camp with Tyson Fury shows how serious he is about his boxing.
“Jarrell has to just keep on doing what he's doing. He's taking voluntary tests, he's training, as far as I see it, he's facing the music and he's making the best of it and making the necessary steps to compete at a high level, he wants to fight the best. It's not unusual for fighters to spar - and a little further down the line fight each other - so the fact that Jarrell's training with Tyson Fury would not impede a match-up in the future.
“I would expect him to come back - we have to think who he's going to partner up with - as soon as possible. Late June or early July.”
