{"id":289078,"date":"2025-11-29T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289078\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:55:08","slug":"big-rocks-mike-tysons-former-coach-reveals-another-heavyweight-he-trained-hit-way-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289078\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Big rocks’ – Mike Tyson’s former coach reveals another heavyweight he trained hit way harder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Tyson possessed earth-shattering power in his heyday, but he wasn’t the biggest puncher that Jeff Fenech trained.<\/p>\n

The three-weight world champion turned coach guided Tyson through the twilight of his career, taking the helm for his ill-fated professional outing against Kevin McBride in 2005<\/a> and his exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr.<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Fenech trained Tyson towards the back end of his careerCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

While Fenech admits that ‘Iron Mike’ had plenty of pop to his shots, the Aussie icon claims Lucas Browne packed an even bigger punch.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Boxing News, he said: “I trained Mike Tyson<\/a>, and I know it’s hard to make comparisons, but holding the pads for Lucas hurt more than Tyson did.<\/p>\n

“Tyson was sharp and a great puncher. Lucas is really heavy-handed, and if he uses that power with combinations, then he’ll win by knockout in the first few rounds.”<\/p>\n

In another interview with the Courier Mail, Fenech expanded on the differences between the two men\u2019s punches. <\/a><\/p>\n

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“Tyson was a devastating puncher, and his punches were fast and snappy,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucas has a different sort of power. It\u2019s heavy and thudding. <\/p>\n

“His punches are like big rocks landing on your head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who is Lucas Browne?<\/p>\n

Browne trained with Fenech for just over a year before switching to the dynamic duo of Nigel Benn<\/a> and Rodney Williams ahead of his WBA ‘regular’ heavyweight title fight with Ruslan Chagaev in March 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Big Daddy’ opened up as a sizeable underdog, and everything looked to be trending towards a likely defeat through ten rounds.<\/p>\n

That is when Browne turned the fight on its head with a right hand from the Gods.<\/p>\n

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Browne has scored 27 KOs in a 31-7 professional boxing careerCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The shot sent Chagaev tumbling to the canvas, and although the Uzbek was able to regain his footing, he was blasted away against the ropes.<\/p>\n

Ecstasy quickly gave way to anguish when Browne was stripped of the black and gold strap for failing a pre-fight drug test.<\/p>\n

He was subsequently cleared, but failed a second test in the space of eight months, thus preventing him from regaining his belt.<\/p>\n

Over the following years, Browne traded wins and losses with varying levels of opposition before turning his hand to bare-knuckle boxing under the BKB promotional banner.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old won his company debut in September by dispatching Corey Harrison in two rounds.<\/p>\n

However, he was knocked out earlier this month by BKB heavyweight champion Gustavo Trujillo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson possessed earth-shattering power in his heyday, but he wasn’t the biggest puncher that Jeff Fenech trained.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,42417,41509,7879,32853,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-289078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-jeff-fenech","tag-lucas-browne","tag-mike-tyson","tag-power","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}