One of these lengthy pre-fight evenings was spent playing poker in Tyson’s new mansion with a few members of the squad.

The champion yelled, “Right here,” as he pounded one of those meat-cleaver fists on a classy table beneath the classical artwork in a large kitchen diner.

Then he burst out laughing. In their trilogy world heavyweight title battle, Tyson Fury will give it his all against Deontay Wilder here on Saturday night, regardless of the outcome.

Did the cards fall in his favor as he had hoped, bringing down America’s Bronze Bomber once more?

With a smile as wide as the front driveway, he declares, “I just have to win at everything.” “Don’t I?”

He generally does, anyway. Still unbeaten. still the world heavyweight champion. However, he wasn’t as in control of the cards as he was when he destroyed Wilder in their first rematch.

He explains, “It was a six-man poker tournament.” Each winner receives £20. It was just the two of us left. Even though I held the most chips, the game was taking too long. Let’s decide who pulls the highest single card, I suggested.

I took the lead. Aww. Give someone a five. I was afraid that I would finish second for once. Then, suddenly, a three was released. “Wow,” I thought. I was shocked to learn that I had won with a five. You would definitely never win with a five at any of the Strip’s casinos. Big ups to everyone!

“I’m stashing the money away to take home and put into my bank savings account,” he says, clearly not letting his £120 victory get to him.

But the next morning, at first light, he emerged from the house with big garbage cans. Does the champion regularly put out the trash? “Hey,” he says. “Of course I do, as I am a father of six.”

After that, he runs around the opulent estate, which has two heavily guarded sets of iron gates at the entrance, with his siblings and trainers. As he signs autographs, a few affluent neighbors keep him jogging right there. He pauses to make a happy show of it while the people next door are walking the dog.

When a medical professional from the neighborhood clinic shows up, he stands in the bright sunshine and gives himself the most recent Covid test: “I have to do it because no one else can maneuver the stick in there because my nose has been broken so frequently in fights.”

The outcome would be negative. He wasn’t surprised. Delaying a second vaccination “because I don’t want to get in the ring feeling weak or anything” has caused some controversy, but he is certain that the July postponement of this fight with Wilder due to his coronavirus infection won’t happen again. “I’ve actually had Covid not once but twice,” he says, expressing his certainty that he is now full of antigens.

Nevertheless, he is being more cautious. Five members of the team now reside in the large house, while three others rent a nearby property. We also maintain the bubble safe by keeping the gym locked and preventing anyone else from entering, he continues.

Not Paris, that beautiful city. Not one of the six kids. After experiencing the heartbreak of nearly losing their newborn daughter, they have returned to Morecambe.

“When you’re told your child is dead, it’s trauma,” adds Fury. We’ve moved on because of the wonderful physicians and nurses who saved her. We prefer to gaze ahead rather than back.

Now let’s go on to Fury-Wilder III. “I never take anyone for granted,” he declares. I destroyed Deontay in seven rounds the last time, so some people are dismissing him. Not me. He remains my most formidable foe. I know I’m dealing with an atomic bomb because of Wilder’s power, even though there are other outstanding fighters.

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It may be disastrous for everyone if he hits with a single blow. In the ring, trauma. When he put me down during our first altercation, I sensed it.

In that incredible last round of a contentious draw, Fury arose hardly conscious to complete the bout.

“You have to have guts to succeed in boxing,” he responds when asked how he accomplished that. Pure courage. There will be times when how much you can handle will matter more than how much you get hit. In my life, I’ve taken a lot. I prepared for this one by acting like Rocky in the film because of this.

No guy was capable of doing more. The hardest sparring imaginable. Consuming only the greatest meals, such as fruits, vegetables, fish, meats, vitamins, minerals.’