'People say to me: 'why don't you live in California or America?' - why would I? Why would I abandon my own country for a bit of money and some fame?' 👏🥊 StanEvent StanSportAU FuryWhyte
"Why would I abandon my own country for a bit of money and some fame?
"I am a gypsy and that's it. I will always be a gypsy, I'll never change. I will always be fat and white and that's it. I am the champion, yet I am thought of as a bum." "You're thinking heavyweight champion of the world, guy who's on top of everything, he must be happy, right? But then I wasn't. There wasn't a day that I woke up that I didn't pray for death. I had everything to be happy for, but every day was grey and dark."
His father John, however, has disputed that talk, stating that he expects his son to stay in the fight game until he is 40.Fury is mates with Kiwi boxers Joseph Parker and Sonny Bill Williams with the former living and training with him in England for the last year. "When we were running, Tyson was saying: 'there have been a lot of boxers that have come and done this hill and stopped. If you stop, this sport isn't for you'," Williams recalled.
"He's there looking at you, watching your form, correcting me. It blew my mind how fit he is for such a big man. He's 132kg but he moves around the ring like a lightweight, has got fast hands. It showed me the levels. I got to see how the best in the world do it... to go over and train with the best heavyweights in the world, I had to take that chance."LINK TO CRIME BOSS, OTHER CONTROVERSIEShas been dominated by his links to Ireland's Kinahan crime family.
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