If boxing can survive Tyson Fury it can survive anything. The undefeated heavyweight contender continues to make waves. It?s less what he does with his fists, which is considerable, that roils the water of propriety than what he does with his mouth, which by gosh and begorrah just won?t quit.
Fury (22-0, 16 KOs) is preparing for his July 26 rematch with Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KOs) at Phones 4 U Arena in Manchester, England. Del Boy also has a mouth on him, but he sounds, if not quite sane, almost engaging compared to Tyson Fury.
When the two men fought in July 2011, Fury handed Chisora his first defeat. The Zimbabwean has suffered other defeats since then, but his losses were to bona fide challengers, not to the hodgepodge of fighters Fury has fought.
But the giant is not taking Del Boy lightly, nor should he. The winner of this fight earns the WBO number one ranking and a chance to fight the Big Kahuna, Wladimir Klitschko. In anticipation of that match, Fury is pushing himself harder than he ever pushed himself before, and in ways that are as unconventional as Fury himself.
?Pushing a tractor is a killer,? he says. ?If anybody thinks it?s easy, come down here and have a try and you?ll see. The tractor is over three tons, it takes every last ounce of strength in my body, but I?m pushing it back. With every push of the tractor wheel, all I?m thinking about is puncturing Chisora?s face with every punch I throw.?
It?s no harder to imagine Fury pushing a three-ton trailer than it is to imagine him thinking about ?puncturing? Del Boy?s face.
?When Chisora?s in front of me and he?s trying to bulldoze his way in, he?ll be coming up against an immovable object, he?ll be like a bug hitting a windscreen.?
That?s a wonderful quote and may have earned Fury a spot in the Boxing Trash Talk Hall of Fame. But there is more, as is often the case with the voluble Tyson Fury.
?Another killer exercise is flipping the tractor tire. It?s probably the best all round strength exercise there is. Flipping the tire uses the back, chest, arm and leg muscles, while pulling the tire back uses the inner core strength involving the stomach muscles. The actual boxing is easy compared to this.
?It?s hell, but this is where the real champions are made. Train hard and brutal and the fights are easy, don?t train like this and fights are murder. That?s my motto.?
Yes, Fury even has a motto.
