Fury hungry for jam and bread, not glory
TYSON FURY should be a man with a hunger to go down in heavyweight history.
But he says he will not care what people think of his legacy when he is retired and too busy tucking into jam sandwiches in Morecambe.
Fury, 31, is far from the coastal town in Lancashire he calls home as he prepares for his second fight in Las Vegas against unbeaten Swede Otto Wallin.
The clash is part of the Mexican Independence Day celebrations and there will be Mariachi bands and sombreros galore at the T-Mobile Arena early tomorrow.
It is all part of the plan to raise Fury’s profile in America leading up to a highly anticipated rematch with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder on February 22.
Beating Wilder to regain a piece of the world heavyweight crown would be an incredible achievement for the former WBA, IBF and WBO champion after his battles with UK AntiDoping and depression.
But according to
Fury, he does not care.
“If I was interested in becoming a true great or whatever then I’d be concerned about who I fight, when I fight and how I fight,” he said. “Considering I’ve no real interest in all of that stuff like legacy and how people perceive me as a person when I’m gone, it doesn’t matter to me.
“Becoming a great means you’re no longer active, no longer relevant. It’s unimportant what people think of me because I’ll be at home having a jam sandwich and a cup of tea looking out the window at Morecambe Bay.”
Fury’s assertion is hard to fathom considering he came back from being almost 28 stone to compete again with the best in the division. But he feels at this point in his career he has nothing to prove.
“I have no ambitions in boxing,” he added. “Every ambition I ever had, I achieved. There isn’t one thing I wanted I haven’t achieved.”
He may be a long way from eating jam sandwiches in Morecambe but the ‘Gypsy King’ looks at home in Sin City. Fury’s promoter Bob Arum says he has the charisma of Muhammad Ali, and there is no doubt he is the most charismatic of the heavyweights.