Ben Davison, the former trainer of Tyson Fury, believes sheer mental pressure may have gotten to Deontay Wilder in last month's rematch at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Wilder was dropped twice and then stopped by Fury in the seventh round. Fury walked away with the WBC heavyweight title.

Wilder has already exercised his contractual option for a trilogy fight, which is being targeted for a date in July.

He says the ring walk outfit, which weighed around 45-pounds, had zapped his legs of any energy and left his physically exhausted by the third round.

"Going into the fight, I felt that Wilder had not yet shown that Wilder could perform on that level, under that pressure, on that stage," Davison told Boxing Social.

"Whereas Tyson had his fight before with Wladimir Klitschko, that was his biggest fight, it was his first test at that level. Tyson knows that he rises to the occasion and that was a bonus going into the second fight. That was advantage Tyson.

"And I think that is sort of what Wilder was walking about with his suit. Anybody who has had a fight, in the ring or outside the ring, the adrenaline you get in your legs. Some people rise to it, some crumble and some get stuck in with it.

"I'm not saying Wilder crumbled under the pressure but I'm saying that's more what it was, than the suit. I think he had adrenaline going through his body and I don't think he coped with it well. I think that's probably why he felt like his legs weren't underneath him, not because of the outfit wear to the ring. And it was a question I asked myself before the right, we've not seen Wilder rise to the occasion yet, but we have with Tyson. It seemed to be the way, Wilder just didn't rise to it the way Tyson did."