Savannah Marshall believes her ‘partnership’ with Peter Fury will be key to her dominating the world.
The unbeaten super-middleweight takes to the ring for the first time in 2019 on Saturday night on the undercard of Hughie Fury v Chris Norrad in Manchester, live on Channel 5.
Peter Fury has already masterminded one of the greatest feats in British boxing history by guiding nephew, Tyson Fury, to his world heavyweight title triumph over Wladimir Klitschko, and is currently looking to get son, Hughie, back onto the global stage.
And Savannah, who takes on Bulgaria’s Boroslava Goranova over six rounds at the Victoria Warehouse venue, says Peter Fury is the ideal person in her corner to take her all the way to the top.
“Peter is a great coach and man,” said the 28-year-old.
“Before I went to America with Mayweather Promotions, Peter got me ready for my professional debut and when I came back from Vegas I knew he was the perfect trainer for me.”
Fury Snr has been putting Hughie and Savannah through their paces in their gym in Salford and the Hartlepool boxer is looking forward to taking into the ring what they have been working on.
The 2012 World gold medalist has spent the majority of her career with her first coach and inspiration, Tim Coulter, from the Headland club in her hometown. They are pictured above witt the WBA inter-continental super-middleweight belt.
Marshall appears to have developed a similar rapport with Fury.
“Tim is a close, trusted friend, a father figure as well as a great coach,” Savannah told punch-lines. “I would not have got where I am without Tim and I still train with him when I’m back in Hartlepool.
“I feel I’m in great hands with Peter, it’s worked really well and I trust him completely.
“I’m learning and developing with him all the time and I believe I can do great things with him as my coach.
“For so many years I went out to win every spar, that was always my mentality.
“But now with Peter every one is different.
“He might say before a spar that we’re working on my defence, or my feet, or whatever, or he might say ‘when you spar, you can’t do this’ or ‘I only want you to do that’. “
Words: Roy Kelly
