Updated at 03:53 PM EST, Thu Jan 21, 2016 Read More By :
by Edward Chaykovsky
Peter Fury, uncle and trainer of WBO/IBO/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, saw impressed by last Saturday's performance from unbeaten Charles Martin, who captured the vacant IBF belt with a third round TKO of Czar Glazkov at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Glazkov suffered a knee injury during the third round and he was unable to continue. Fury held the IBF belt as well when he defeat Wladimir Klitschko last November.
The IBF stripped Fury for his inability to make a mandatory defense against Glazkov.
Fury sat ringside at Barclays and watched the heavyweight action in the ring. WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder was featured in the main event of the card, where he knocked out Artur Szpilka in the ninth round.
Fury (25-0, 18KOs) is heading into a rematch with Klitschko in the coming months. If Fury wins his upcoming defense, Martin (23-0-1, 21KOs) and Wilder (36-0, 35KOs) would both be future targets.
Peter Fury holds both Wilder and Martin on the same level. He felt Martin was well on his way to beating Glazkov before the injury occurred.
"I had Wilder a couple of rounds behind before the knockout. He got the knockout and that was the main thing but it wasn't an impressive performance. Charles Martin looks very good. From what I've seen of him, he's useful. I had him beating Glazkov before the injury and saw the fight going only one way, to be honest," Peter Fury told Sky Sports.
"I think Martin is equally as good as Wilder, as far as I can see. He looks impressive and I think he's up there. He has to be taken seriously and he's the IBF champion now. I liked his punches and the way he was relaxed. Martin was doing everything properly. I haven't seen much but from what I have seen, he looks impressive."