'I know now I can't live a normal life, it's not going to happen. Saturday's fight at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is Tyson Fury's second successive fight at an English football stadiumĪfter that victory over Whyte, Fury, with 32 victories and one draw, felt he was mentally slipping back to how he had been in 2017 and had to act.

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He has since described himself as becoming 'a fat pig at 28 stone, drinking and taking drugs on a daily basis' and that he 'suffered with depression up to the point of suicide, anxiety attacks, everything, you couldn't get any lower'. After he stunned then champion Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 to pick up the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts, Fury spent two and a half years out of the ring.

'I ain't back boxing for a belt, more money, to win five fights or to unify the division - I'm back boxing because of this,' he added, pointing at his head.įury's battle with mental health problems has been well documented.

'For four months I was retired and I was back in that moment when life was very dark and very dull,' Fury told BT Sport. After defeating Dillian Whyte with a stunning sixth-round stoppage in front of 94,000 fans at Wembley Stadium in the spring, Fury said: 'This might be the final curtain for the Gypsy King.'īut Fury, born three months premature, weighing just one pound and not expected to live, has been a fighter all of his life.

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