TYSON FURY AND FELLOW BRIT ANTHONY JOSHU
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Age: 31
Height: 6ft 9in
Weight: 19st 7lb
Reach: 85in
Background: Born premature, weighing just 1lb, in Manchester to an Irish traveller family, he was named after boxing legend Mike Tyson. His dad John was a bare-knuckle fighter.
Form: Unbeaten in 31 fights with 30 wins and 21 knockouts. In 2015 he memorably pulled off a huge upset by beating Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko to win the
IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles.
Diet and training:
Six meals a day including tasty curries and dark chocolate – packing 4,500 calories and guzzling eight litres of water. He used the ketogenic diet, high in natural fats but low on carbs, to shed 10st before his draw with
Gypsy King
Wilder in 2018. Fury dips his hands in petrol to toughen them up and bizarrely revealed that he masturbates seven times a day to keep his testosterone pumping.
Love life: Married to childhood sweetheart and 5ft 7in ex-beautician Paris (below, left), who he met when she was 15 and he 17. They wed in 2008 after he proposed with a plastic engagement ring. The pair have five children Venezuela, 10, Prince John James, eight, Prince Tyson Fury II, three, Valencia Amber, two, and Prince Adonis Amaziah, one.
Wealth: Set to hit £100million this year thanks to fight purses and TV deals.
Lifestyle: Recently the subject of a fly-onthe-wall ITV documentary Tyson Fury: The Gypsy King, he lives in a five-bedroom, £500,000 house in Morecambe, Lancs, with a custom-built 7ft bed. He also owns a Marbella holiday villa and
IT’S set to be the bout of the decade, as newly crowned heavyweight boxing champ Tyson Fury lines up a multimillion-pound showdown.
Fury snatched Deontay collection of luxury cars including a RollsRoyce, Range Rover and £166,000 red Ferrari Portofino.
Dress sense: Loves designer labels such as Versace and diamond-encrusted Rolex watches but also favours zany get-ups including a Batman outfit and a £9,000 chinchilla fur coat.
Top trivia: A born-again Christian, he has considered standing as an MP. He is a Manchester United fan, loves caravans and likes going to his local pub and café where they trim the fat off his bacon.
Low point: Once ballooned to more than 28st and has battled drink, drugs and depression. He once drank 100 pints a week and in 2016 nearly took his own life by plunging his Ferrari off a bridge at 190mph – seeing sense at the last moment. He has since cleaned up and had psychiatric help for bipolar disorder.
Controversy: Fury has been in hot water for alleged homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist outbursts. When he tested positive for a banned steroid, he claimed it was because he had eaten meat from an uncastrated boar.
Top quote: “I’m the Devil.” not even scared of
Wilder’s WBC title on Saturday in their seven-round rematch in Las Vegas.
Now the fiery fighter could be aiming for a unification clash with rival Anthony Joshua,