Spencer Brown, Tyson Fury’s manager struggles to dispel rising doubts in Fury’s physical fitness
After witnessing the out-of-place increase of Tyson Fury’s weight toward his contest with Cameroonian Francis Ngannou, those who know Fury’s mental health history are getting suspicious. But Fury’s manager, Spencer Brown has flown in to dispel all the doubts.
Following Tyson Fury’s victory over Wladimir Klitschko, the champion he knocked out to lift the WBC heavyweight belt for the first time, he fell into a deadly mental state that threatened to take his life through suicide. But ‘The Gypsy King’ survived after familial and medical psychiatric supports.
Tyson Fury’s experiment with lots of cocaine and alcohol failed to help him, as was disclosed in an interview he gave after a dope test result showed that cocaine was found in his system. The boxer admitted he had done lots of cocaine so as not to kill himself instead.
He grew so fat and unfit in those days that he was in no shape to defend a belt at professional boxing, and was stripped of his title because of his use of a hard drug. He would later return to knock out Deontay Wilder after a trilogy bout and become the next WBC boxing king. A position he has defended for long enough to prove he was of Hall Of Fame quality.
But the return of a symptom people saw during his mental-health decline, while a very dangerous puncher awaits to meet him in the ring has many rightly worried.
‘[Ngannou] a monster! This guy’s a monster, but so is Tyson,’ affirmed Brown. ‘I’m telling you, he is leaving no stone unturned! Yesterday, he had the birth of his kid, he was there for nine hours. He went from there straight to the gym and trained, he’s in there [twice a day]. They’re taking this very seriously, and why wouldn’t you?
‘Tyson always looks soft. Have a look at him every fight, he’s always soft… He has his own dietary diet, he makes his own food. [He works with] George Lockhart… Mentally, he’s fantastic. In a great place, one of the best places I’ve seen in him in a very, very long time.’
With Tyson Fury’ release of a statement saying that only his mental health can beat him, and rumours saying the fighter seems to be struggling with some adverse psychological situation, Tyson Fury’s fans might rightly look toward October 28 with fearful eyes.