Tyson Fury’s trainer, Andy Lee, has revealed the 36-year-old ‘had a sadness to him’ following his wife’s miscarriage before his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk earlier this year.
When Fury faced Usyk in May, he sensed that Paris had miscarried after she informed him she wouldn’t be able to fly to the Middle East.
He previously said: “When she said she couldn’t come over, I knew there was a problem.
“She never told me she had lost the baby, but I knew.”
Tyson Fury’s wife, Paris, heartbreakingly suffered a miscarriage earlier in the year
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Lee, speaking to The Sun, said that Fury didn’t talk about his personal life prior to his defeat to Usyk.
He does admit, however, that the 36-year-old had a ‘quietness’ and a ‘sadness’ to him in the hours before the clash.
“I wasn’t aware of it (Paris’ miscarriage). I knew she was expecting a child. She’s always at the fights and I was expecting her to be there, really,” he told The Sun.
“When she wasn’t there I thought maybe she can’t fly or something like that.
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“Tyson never mentioned it. He never mentioned it once but he was very quiet.
“Even the day of the fight in the afternoon, the fight takes place so late over there, it must have been about 6 or 7pm, we all went for a walk and he was very quiet.
“We had a good chat, me and him, just talking about his career and how far he’d come and what this moment meant to him.
“There was a certain quietness to him or maybe a sadness but that was probably playing on his mind.
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“When you watch a fight, you’re just seeing a fight. But the months and weeks leading up to that fight dictate how the fight turns out, how it goes for you.
“So being cut, not having a full, proper training camp and maybe having something like that in the back of your mind, it all leads into your performance.”
Lee also believed Fury had the miscarriage ‘playing on his mind’ prior to the first defeat of his professional career.
He continued: “For me, what was quite telling, was… when Tyson makes his ring walk I’ll go to the ring first, I won’t go on the ring walk with him.
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Tyson Fury’s trainer, Andy Lee, has revealed the 36-year-old ‘had a sadness to him’ following his wife’s miscarriage before his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk earlier this year
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“I’ll go to the ring and make sure I’m in the ring before Tyson gets to the ring, to give him water and just be there, have someone to meet him.
“I watched Usyk come into the ring and his crew and all the team and he was settling himself, Usyk, he was quite focused and present.
“When Tyson got into the ring I could see somebody who was a little bit agitated and I think all of those little things that were going on in the build-up to the fight maybe were playing on his mind, or maybe just having that bit of anxiety about him.
“I could see, if you watch the fight back, before the fight he wasn’t really himself. Like usually he’s quite within himself.
Tyson Fury will be aiming to win his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk next Saturday
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“So just an interesting insight, something I noticed straight away when he got into the ring.”
Fury will be hoping to beat Usyk in their rematch next Saturday.
The blockbuster showdown will once again take place in Riyadh, with millions of fans from all over the world poised to tune in.
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