Tyson Fury has revealed he started training for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk immediately after his initial defeat back in May.
The Gypsy King lost via split decision earlier in the year, with the Briton suffering the first defeat of his professional career in the process.
Fury has, however, shown throughout his career that he’s capable of bouncing back.
Having been written off prior to his three bouts with Deontay Wilder, the 36-year-old stunned the world by drawing on his comeback – before beating the American in the two other contests.
Tyson Fury has revealed he started training for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk immediately after his initial defeat back in May
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Fury, speaking to DAZN, says he immediately started training for his rematch with Usyk after his initial defeat.
And he’s also opened up on his love of running, revealing it’s something that runs in his family.
“I went out running straight away, as soon as I got back,” he said. “It’s back to my routine life. I train every day. I love what I do.
“I’ll be doing it until I can’t run anymore. It’s just what we do. My grandfather jogged three miles the day he died. It’s in me to do it all my life.”
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Meanwhile, as the rematch looms, Paulie Malignaggi has provided his verdict.
He feels that, while Usyk is a little older than his rival, the Ukrainian’s application and professionalism will see him come out on top once again.
“I know Usyk is a little older. I do know that,” Malignaggi told talkSPORT.
“But Usyk has always lived a more disciplined life from a living perspective, but also from a mental stability perspective.
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Tyson Fury lost to Oleksandr Usyk in their first bout back in May
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“He’s always the same person mentally. These Eastern guys, they’re not that emotional when it comes to that. While Westerners, we tend to be a little bit more emotional.”
He does admit, however, that the bout is a tough one to call.
“Because fighters don’t fight every three, four weeks like they did in the old days, It’s very hard to predict this fight,” he added.
“You have to become—you have to do both a boxing analysis and a psychoanalysis.
Tyson Fury has vowed to cut out the showboating as he looks to beat Oleksandr Usyk
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“You have to see where these guys’ heads are at as well, especially when it comes to a guy like Tyson Fury, who seems motivated with all his best intentions.
“And we’ve seen what happens when Fury is motivated like this.
“We’ve seen that before the Wladimir Klitschko fight and nobody really believed in him. We’ve seen this before the Deontay Wilder rematch when nobody really believed in him.
“And both times before those fights, before the Wilder rematch and before the Klitschko fight, he went into this sort of elimination of all distractions and you were left wondering, okay, yeah, what is he actually doing?
“And then he really actually did something special. So you end up now with this same kind of mindset, but then you’re wondering at this age, can he still do it?”
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