Spencer Brown, the manager of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), is convinced that there was an informant working against them in the training camp:
'Johnny Nelson. He has a mole in our camp. We're digging everywhere because he's somewhere. There's an informant in the camp, and I have one specific suspect. Whoever the rat is, he didn't do a very good job because he misunderstood everything. Jay O'Puetaya knocked out Fury... It just didn't happen. Tyson was on fire. The sparring was so good that I celebrated it with cheesecake. Was there a mole? Yes, of course, someone is,' Brown said.
The manager of Tyson Fury's next opponent, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, and The Ring champion Alexander Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs), responded to this statement:
'You can run, but you can't hide. The truth always comes out, with informants or without them. Three months of extra time can help or harm, we'll see,' wrote Klimas on Twitter.
The Usyk vs. Fury fight was postponed from February 17 to May 18 due to a cut Fury suffered during sparring.