IT seems to have gone by almost unnoticed.

Maybe Ben Davison has not been afforded the same respect as a more experienced trainer. Perhaps there’s an easy-come easy-go mentality with fight fans.

But it is bizarre that Tyson Fury and his coach have split just seven weeks before his proposed February 22 rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.

They appeared a superb match, psychologically and boxing-wise.

And they had been on a journey only they will understand.

There is no such person in boxing as a man with 100 per cent support so Davison will have his critics, and one was Fury’s father John.

He carried an anti-Davison sentiment after Fury was cut and pushed by unheralded Swede Otto Wallin.

“I’ve never seen him as bad,” said Fury Sr of his son. “He looked weight drained. He looked like he’d left it all in the gym… He’s a lucky man to get the win to be honest, a lucky man indeed.”

He refused to give Wallin any credit, or trainer Joey Gamache who emerged from fight week with a stock that had risen.

Davison had guided him through two easy wins, the impressive Wilder performance, an obliteration of outgunned Thomas Schwarz and then there was one so-so performance after Fury suffered one of the worst cuts in boxing of 2019. Plenty of fighters serve up ho-hum showings. No one fighter is 10 out of 10 every time. But the axe has fallen.

Fury Sr felt the performance was an indicator of what his son did wrong rather than what Wallin did right. Time will only tell, for sure, but Fury Sr was in no doubt. His son was flat, he wasn’t right and it was on Davison.

The coach said the build-up had not been perfect, that things would change before the Wilder return, but not many saw his head rolling.

It appeared their bond was based on trust, loyalty and respect.

They remained friends. Davison confirmed the split on Twitter and Fury announced his new team on social media, with SugarHill at the helm.

It’s the old Kronk connection with Fury, who’d worked with Emanuel Steward in Wladimir Klitschko camps as a novice pro, apparently impressed enough with Hill to hire him years later to train and corner him at short notice on a huge fight.

It seems like an extraordinary turn of events.

Since Wallin, Fury has released a best-selling autobiography, had a run in the WWE and released a Christmas song with Robbie Williams. He’s hit levels of celebrity rarely seen in boxing.

Everyone must have been telling him what he wants to hear for months, offering deals, shaking hands, patting him on the back. But has he been told the right things?

Fundamentally, his strategy for Wilder seems like it will be different for the rematch even though almost everybody had him winning the first-time round. Davison wanted him fast, light, twitchy, feinting, fit for 12 rounds to stay out of trouble, stay on red alert. Yes, he survived that 12th round bomb but by in large the game plan worked for the majority of those watching accept those with the scoresheets.

Conversely, Fury Sr said on BT Sport last night that Fury can’t leave it to the judges, that his son needs to come in heavier and stronger, that he punches with more malice when he carries more weight and that the plan should be to knock out Wilder; not let the judges have any input at all.

Fury carries respectable power but he’s not a knockout artist. Wilder is not often hurt and has never been stopped.

There’s probably people in both camps; some will feel speed and variety could do the job a second time; others might think Fury being the bigger, stronger man will favour him.

But with the extra size, will Fury have the stamina to do what he did last time for 12 rounds? Will he have the same fitness and recovery powers? Can he stay out of trouble himself, if he’s a bigger target, while he’s trying to inflict maximal damage on the champion. And if there was going to be such a drastic about turn in strategies, should the new direction not have been taken weeks ago rather than two months ahead of fight night?

It’s a curious situation, and Davison doesn’t seem to have legions of sympathisers.

Sure, bringing Tyson back from being overweight and going on their famed winning run can’t be dined out on forever, but was it really time for a change?

You hope it was a boxing decision, but from a boxing perspective it seems crazy.

So often in the business you hear about greed. With the men who slap Tyson on the back, have they asked what money Davison is getting? Is Tyson being told he’s the one taking the punches, that his career’s short and he needs to maximise his paydays?

It would be a familiar tale.

Tyson has too much respect to come out and say he’s changed trainers for boxing reasons, and Davison has too much self-respect to say why it’s come about.

It just seems a shame that their unusual and unlikely journey is over before it reached the intended destination but it seems this fortnightly column ends on a familiar refrain; that’s boxing.