Tyson Fury Was ‘Badly Injured’ Before Third Deontay Wilder Fight

Tyson Fury was badly injured ahead of his trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder, his father revealed.

John Fury recently did an interview and revealed Fury had a bad injury and was handicapped from the beginning of his training camp.

“Tyson was very badly injured going into that fight,” John Fury told BT Sport (via BBC). “He was handicapped from the beginning. It wasn’t a boxing match was it?”

Although Fury was injured, he didn’t fight like it. He won the fight by 11th-round KO even though he was dropped twice in the fourth. He rallied to get the win and defend his belt and for Fury, he says that just cements his son’s legacy.

“My son’s number one, a legend and will be spoken about for hundreds of years,” John Fury added. “He’s that damn good and got that burning desire to never get beaten. He had to have chromosome injections into both elbows. He’s since had an operation, six hours, all day in hospital having them sorted out. He had some bone spurs he had to get removed. He said to me afterwards ‘I couldn’t box, I couldn’t work the jab. If I’d missed the jab it would’ve put me in limp mode and I wouldn’t have been able to fight. ‘The pain when throwing the jab was unbearable so I was fighting two people – the pain in my own body and him. All we could do was make it a war and I wanted to win more than he did’.”

According to John, he said he told Tyson Fury to retire as he nothing to prove. Yet, he doubts his son will listen to him.

“I said retire,” added John Fury. “He’s won everything, nothing to prove and has millions of pounds in the bank, he’s secure for life, there’s more to life than getting your brains rattled. But he’s his own man, he’ll do what he’s going to do but for me I said to call it [over]. He’s beaten the best man of his era three times, what more can he do? Tyson will spend two months at home and want the smell of sweat and leather. He’ll be fighting when he is 40, he can’t help himself, he’s a human pitbull terrier.”

What do you make of Tyson Fury being badly injured before the third Wilder fight?