By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart In boxing the world over, the name Fury is synonymous with so many things – the character of Tyson, the reality TV shows of Tommy and the Bombastic nature of Big John. Father to both boys, John Fury has had his own show and is a regular feature on radio and television
Sherman Williams is the archetypal heavyweight nearly man. There’s excuses. There’s pride. There’s genuine hard luck. Best of all there’s lessons aplenty for the fighters he now guides through the hardest game. By Oliver Fennell
LIKE many former fringe contenders, Sherman Williams has a lot of “what ifs”. What if the scores had been different in certain fights? What if he’d been given more notice for others? What if Evander Holyfield had answered the bell for the fourth round? The Bahamian heavyweight reckons he was robbed several times in his career, but never more so than the night he locked horns with a legend and learned sometimes you just can’t win – even when your opponent verbally surrenders.