Outspoken star can rule again

TYSON FURY says this is Chapter Two.

It’s a new dawn in the career of boxing’s most outspoken star. But the real test will be if he can return to the top of the heavyweight division – and stay there. As he sat at the press conference ahead of his return fight tonight, he refused to look back to Dusseldorf and the best night of his career.

It has been two and a half years since Fury dethroned world champion Wladimir Klitschko.

He has not fought since, but now faces Albanian Sefer Seferi in an easy comeback fight.

“Why do we keep going back to years ago?” said the Manchesterborn fighter.

“I don’t want to hear any more questions about that idiot Wladimir Klitschko, who is a bum. Useless.”

Supremely confident and cocksure, the statements become bolder and bolder as he speaks with an ever-growing boom while wearing a loud shirt with animals printed all over it. “The King of the Jungle shirt,” added Fury. “With no lion, because that’s me.”

Then when asked how many fights he needs before facing Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder, he added: “Give them bats and hammers, I am ready. I don’t need any warm-up fights. Put them up now and I will whup them all.

Dark

“I am the best heavyweight there has ever been in the world. There ain’t been no one like me – ever. I am a freak of nature.

“If I get knocked upside down, kick me in the face, when I am on the floor, and spit on me.

“And if I win say, ‘Let’s go on to the next one’.”

When he beat Klitschko, he got credit for a fantastic performance but people didn’t warm to him. His return, though, will add spice to a division led by IBF, WBA and WBO champion Joshua and WBC title holder Wilder.

“I haven’t had a bad day in I don’t know how long,” added the Gypsy King, who has bounced back from mental health issues and an alleged failed drugs test in February 2015.

“Every day I take air in is a good day.”

Winning the titles 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.”