Heavyweight contender Tyson Fury admits that he potentially made a big mistake in dropping head trainer Ben Davison.

Last month, Fury shocked many experts when he made a decision to replace Davison - especially since Fury was only a few weeks away from his rematch with WBC world champion Deontay Wilder.

Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial draw in December of 2018.

Davison began training Fury at the end of 2017, when the boxer began to make plans for a comeback after being away from the ring for over two years. Davison was his head trainer for his last five fights.

Fury eventually announced SugarHill Steward as the man to take over as head trainer. Steward is the nephew of legendary coach Emanuel Steward.

"To train with someone and feel like an absolute novice is exciting," Fury told BT Sport.

"Me and SugarHill have not worked together for a long time and even before I only had a week with the guy. Everything is different; I feel like I'm learning again, before we were polishing stuff I did good and it was a winning formula.

"Now we're working on stuff I don't do so well and that's new to me, and that's the challenge. I thought if there is anyone who is going to be a good heavyweight trainer it's SugarHill and I believe the switch is a good thing. I wasn't so sure at the beginning, you never know what you're going to get with a new trainer and your whole team is separated, but after three weeks together I knew it was going to be a fantastic choice.

"Me and Ben were inseparable for the last three years so not having him is strange. We've been texting; it would have have been nice to have him here as well to work on stuff we've been doing but he has other commitments."