Miracle man Fury’s love for boxing is a warning to heavy rivals

“I’m in love with boxing again. Boxing is the biggest drug on earth, it ’s an aphrodisiac and I feel f ulfilment when I’m doing it and where I’m supposed to be and without it I do feel a void. But with it I feel contentment.

“Before the Klitschko f ight I said win, lose or draw this is it, I’m not f ighting af ter this. I said it to my brother Shane and my dad. I knew in my heart I was f inished, I’d had enough of it, I was sick to death of boxing — the inactivity, the skuldugger y that goes on, it ’s not a nice thing to be involved in.

“But now I’m happy and I’m enjoying the challenge of coming back and proving people wrong. Getting myself from a 28 stone whale to f ighting again, that made me happy.

“And who knows how long it will keep me happy...

“Boxing is easy to me, I don’t know why... there’s no buzz like f ighting someone, the nerves before a f ight, the adrenaline pumping, feeling the crowd wanting you. The feeling they want to see drama, baying for blood, they want to be enter- tained. And so do I.”

This is the fourth time that Fury has fought in Belfast, having previously headlined at the King’s Hall as well as the SSE Arena, where he stopped Martin Rogan to win the Irish heav y weight title before going on to win a world title eliminator against Kevin Johnson on the path to that showdown in Germany with Klitschko.

Staying at the Europa, Fury — who has family in Nutts Corner — says he is feeling rela xed and right at home ahead of his duel with former world title