Tyson Fury during an open training session in Los Angeles
The head coach says relationship with owner Marinakis is ‘not so good’
IT’S hard not to warm to Tyson Fury 2.0. In his Vegas poolside interview with veteran boxing scribe Steve Bunce this week, the former heavyweight champion and self-proclaimed lineal champ laid out a vision for the future that was so expansive and ambitious it would have made Alexander the Great tremble with uncertainty.
Fury is fighter at the very top of his powers, popularity and confidence — relishing, you can tell, his re-emergence from the personal hell he resided in for two years after his 2015 victory over Wladimir Klitschko in Germany.
Gone is the anger and rage of the previous incarnation, replaced now with the contented wisdom of a man who, per Nietzsche, has gazed into the abyss and stepped back before the abyss gazed back into him.
In recently published book Baddest Man, Mark Kriegel revisits the Faustian pact at the heart of Mike Tyson’s rise and the emotional fallout that followed, writes JOHN WIGHT
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
From humble beginnings to becoming the undisputed super lightweight champion of the world, Josh Taylor’s career was marked by fire, ferocity, and national pride, writes JOHN WIGHT
Mary Kom’s fists made history in the boxing world. Malak Mesleh’s never got the chance. One story ends in glory, the other in grief — but both highlight the defiance of women who dare to fight, writes JOHN WIGHT
