We all saw how Francis Ngannou really made Tyson Fury struggle when they fought, many even think he is the one who won the fight back in Riyadh. But we still hadn’t heard anything from John Fury and how he thinks his son Tyson tackled this fight. In a recent interview with Mail Sport, the Fury elder wanted to remind his son of everything he saw wrong with his game plan. Amongst the many aspects he considers could’ve been better, Tyson’s physical conditioning didn’t convince John that was optimal. Tyson Fury’s father believes his son should’ve moved better inside the ring, with better boxing skills on display that he never used during the fight.

During an extended interview with Mail Sports, here’s what John Fury said when asked what was wring about his son’s preparation: “There was a lot wrong with it. His physical condition could have been a lot better. The game plan – there wasn’t one. At the end of the day, he does his thing again. But it could have been a lot better. or my money, he hadn’t trained the way he should have done for that fight and I don’t mean physically, I mean a game plan. His game plan should have been box and move be clever, be witty, outsmart him, but what happened? He tried to break a ten tonne bulldozer with a toffee hammer.”

He continued: Tyson, he looked fat thin to me. His condition, his body didn’t look right from the off. He was somewhere else, Tyson. I don’t know whether he couldn’t get up for the fight. That wasn’t Tyson in there. He still does enough to win. He won the fight no matter what people think, but he made it difficult for himself with that game plan. It was f***ing stupid basically. You don’t meet an express train head on, do you? On the ability Tyson’s got, he should have trained for the back foot, slipping and sliding, the same style for when he fought Wladimir Klitschko. Then he would have made Ngannou look silly and he would have run out of ideas.”

John Fury, father of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, admits that he’s witnessed a decline in his son when examining his last three ring appearances.

Last month in Saudi Arabia, Fury was nearly derailed by MMA veteran Francis Ngannou in a non-title crossover boxing match.

Ngannou, who was making his professional debut, dropped Fury in the third round and made the fight very competitive until the final bell.

Fury was able to secure a razor-close ten round split decision win. Most observers had expected a complete mismatch.

Up next, on February 17, is an undisputed showdown with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk.

John Fury believes his son needs more time to get properly prepared for Usyk.

“The 17th February is the date they have got to work towards. But in my opinion, Tyson needs a bit more time to get his conditioning right and his weight right,” John Fury told Metro.co.uk.

“For my money, his last three fights, I have seen a bit of decline. Not a decline in ability but a decline in strength, power and physical condition. I don’t know what they are doing up there, you have to address it. He didn’t look himself out in Saudi.

“He didn’t look right, everything had changed about him, his demeanor, his body. I was puzzled. He said he had been training but there is training and there is training. If you’re going at your own pace no one is going to tell you otherwise, no one is going to offend you or kick you up the backside. No one can teach Tyson how to box, or teach him more than he knows. All they can do is put some muscle on there and make his body rock solid.

“For my money he looked fat-thin, he should have been better, a bit heavier with a lot more muscle. Tyson is a mammoth fella. He needs to power up in the body department and the only way you do that is a proper course and they take time and we don’t have the time.”