Fury is reaping benefits of his change of lifestyle
TYSON Fury intends to remain healthy and stay out of trouble as he plots his way back to the top of the heavyweight division.
The Mancunian, 31, relinquished the belts he won against Wladimir Klitschko after much-publicised mental health problems and a ban for a failed drugs test.
Fury has one eye on a February rematch with the WBC champion Deontay Wilder after their meeting last December finished in a draw, but for now he has to focus on tomorrow’s Las Vegas bout against relative unknown Otto Wallin.
Fury, who has had previous weight
problems, once ballooning to 28 stone, insists he is now in peak condition.
“I have changed my lifestyle, I have a new lease of life and it is training, eating well, sleeping well, drinking well and enjoying day-byday as it comes,” he said.
“My long-term plan is to keep healthy and stay out of trouble by being a good boy.”
Fury’s new fitness regime meant he was able to bring forward a fight date by a month in order to top the bill at the T-Mobile Arena on Mexican Independence weekend.
He was scheduled to fight in New York on October 6, but could not resist the lure of a return to Nevada after making his debut here against Tom Schwarz in June.
“What people don’t know is I wasn’t supposed to box this weekend,” he added. “When we heard that ‘Canelo’ Alvarez wasn’t going to be fighting on Mexican Independence weekend’ we thought, ‘damn, what a shock’ because this is a special weekend in Las Vegas for boxing.
“I thought the Mexican people are not going to have a main attraction, so I decided to step in and bring my fight date four weeks closer just so the Mexican people could have a main event, a massive superstar fighter boxing on this weekend.
“I was already very fit even a week into training camp. I always train twice a day now, so it doesn’t matter how soon the fights come about. I will always be ready. It’s very hard, obviously, but when you get in the routine of it, it becomes very easy.”
Fury has embraced the Mexican theme, rebranding himself ‘El rey de los gitanos’ (king of the gypsies).