Fury’s moving on

TYSON FURY says this is chapter two in the career of one of boxing’s most outspoken men. But the real test of that will be if he can return to the top of the heavyweight division without controversy. At the press conference ahead of his comeback fight tonight, he refused to look back at Dusseldorf and the greatest night of his career. It has been two and a half years since Fury dethroned world champion Wladimir Klitschko there. He has not fought since and now faces the little-known Albanian Sefer Seferi. “Why do we keep going back to years ago?” said Fury. “I don’t want to hear any more questions about that idiot Wladimir Klitschko, who’s a bum by the way. Useless.” Fury, who weighed in at 19st 10lb yesterday, 4st 10lbs heavier than Seferi, may not want to go back to Germany but the lively build-up to this fight brings back memories of Dusseldorf. The man in the loud animalprint shirt said it is his “King of the Jungle shirt. With no lion, because that’s me.” When asked how many fights he needs before facing Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder, Fury said: “Give them bats and hammers, I’m ready.”

When he won the WBA, IBF and WBO belts from Klitschko, Fury got some credit for a fantastic display but the public struggled to warm to him.

This is the first step on the long road back but one that should add spice to a division currently being led by IBF, WBA and WBO champion Joshua and WBC title-holder Wilder.

Fury was the best heavyweight in the world the night he beat Klitschko but after that his life spiralled out of control amid a legal battle with UK Anti-Doping over a failed drugs test.

He became depressed and failed two Voluntary Anti-Doping Association tests for cocaine traces.

But he said yesterday: “I haven’t had a bad day in I don’t know how long. Every day I take in air is a good day.”

Winning the world belts back by beating Joshua and Wilder would go a long way to making people forget about the dark days, but Fury is not bothered.

“It doesn’t matter to me, it really doesn’t matter,” he said. “Forget about it. Move on. Chapter two.”

Forget about that idiot Klitschko