Savannah Marshall talks about her debut in professional boxing and her sparring with Tommy Fury

Posted at: September 07, 2022

Professional Boxing: The first time Savannah Marshall encountered a professional boxing setting was during an unscheduled sparring session with Tommy Fury.

During Marshall’s preparations for her 2017 Las Vegas debut with Mayweather Promotions, it would serve as the beginning of her blooming connection with now-trainer Peter Fury.

“Before I flew out to Vegas for my debut, I was on the phone to Sam Jones and I said ‘I’ve never actually been in a pro gym’,” Marshall explained. “He said, ‘I’m looking after Joe Joyce at the minute and he’s sparring Hughie Fury in Bolton and his dad Peter has said you’re more than welcome to come down and he’ll show you bits and bobs and help get you started for your debut’.

“I didn’t know anything about Peter, I knew he was Tyson’s uncle and knew that Tyson had become heavyweight champion, that’s all I knew. I went down to meet Peter and he was really nice and welcoming.

“I remember him saying ‘do you want to spar?’, I said ‘ahh yeah go on then’. Tommy Fury was there and I remember Peter saying ‘you do not lay a glove on her, do not touch her, I want you working on defence’.

“I put my gloves on and thought ‘I’m going to batter you’ but I could not lay a glove on him, that was my introduction to pro boxing.”

Following her return from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Marshall said she had pondered giving up boxing, but Floyd Mayweather’s organisation was eager to bring her to the United States.

Prior to taking off, she stopped by the Fury gym, which might have been the most significant professional encounter of her life.

“I remember thinking ‘wow, this is just a totally different dance’,” she continued. “I went away and the next day I got a call off Sam saying ‘Peter said you’re more than welcome to come down and he’ll train you for your full camp’.

“During that camp, Peter the philosopher that he is every now again would say ‘you just watch yourself in America, because this pro boxing is not what you think you know’.

“Every now and again he’d drop it again ‘this pro boxing is a dirty business you know?’. Even back then he was prepping me going ‘it’s not all Lamborghinis’ and it wasn’t.”

Upon initially meeting Peter Fury, Marshall describes herself as a “standard amateur.” Fury’s approach to their early days of training together was a clear concentration on the art of defensive boxing in order to balance the punching power of the Silent Assassin.

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