Tyson Fury Ready For His Clash With Chisora

Tyson Fury is preparing to step into the ring to face Dereck Chisora - where the British and Commonwealth title be on the line.

Fury’s made an impressive start to his professional boxing career fourteen wins from fourteen with ten knockouts and he is looking to lift the title on 23rd July.

I caught up with the British boxer to find out how training was going ahead of the big fight and his thoughts about his opponent. 

- You are about to face Dereck Chisora for the British Heavyweight Championship so how is training going ahead of the fight - you have been training since Christmas?

Training is brilliant, I’ve been training since Christmas, and I’m as fit as a fiddle. I’m in brilliant shape, the best shape of my life, I’m as sexy as ever and I’m definitely going to do a good job on this kid. It’s my time to shine baby!

- You have got a five weeks or so before you are due to get in the ring so what now needs to be done in the coming weeks?

I’m just going to keep eating correctly and drink a lot of water and I think that everything will be ok. While I have been working hard in training I have also been getting plenty of rest - it’s all good.

- Can you talk to be about your training over the next few weeks and how does that alter as the fight gets closer?

Training involves running in the morning and that is followed by weights, pull ups and push ups before I rest for the afternoon. At 7pm I start my boxing training and that consists of bag work, skipping, pads, sparring before taking on more food and then more rest.

- What are you expecting from your opponent Chisora when you get in the ring with him?

I’m expecting him to be tough, fit, strong, ready but I just ain’t expecting him to be as tough as me.

- In the press this week Chisora has called this fight a 'mismatch' …

It is a mis-match - but on his behalf not mine.

- He believes that you are not ready for this fight - what do you have to say to that?

It’s all talk isn’t it? I can talk to the cows come home but it’s not going to help me in the ring. I will tell you this one thing that might persuade you to believe me; my life is on the line here - it ain’t just about boxing for me, it ain’t about making a few quid either, but I fight for honour not for money.

And another thing when my life is on the line I am going to do a lot of fighting aren’t I? I’m fighting for my life in this ring.

- Well you have touched on my next question really I was listening to an interview with yourself and interestingly you said that you don't fight for money but for honour - what is honour to you?

Money is nothing to me, I’ not interesting in money at if I’m being honest. All I’m interested in is being healthy and being right with God as well as being a good father, a good husband and a good son. 

All the rest is a bonus if you have got it - but if you haven’t it doesn’t make you any worse of a man whether you have money or not I’m always going to be the same person so I’m not that bothered.

But I will say I’m not like him because it’s in my blood to fight and I have been doing it all my life and I will carry on doing it - that’s what I intend to do and that is what I will do.

- You began boxing at the age of fourteen so how and why did you get into the sport?

My dad was a boxer and I was just destined to be a boxer really; I was born prematurely, died three times and came back to life in an incubator so my dad called me Tyson and I wasn’t ever going to be anything else.

- Despite being three in the world in the amateur rankings you missed out on going to Beijing so how disappointed were you at that but…

I missed out on going to Beijing because it was all politics really - I wasn’t the right face. But I’m not really too bothered because I’m in a professional career now, second year in, and I’m doing well so it doesn’t really bother me.

- How much do you think that missing out has benefited you, the start to your professional career has been incredibly good?

I think it has benefited me a lot to be honest. I have worked my way up through the ranking and I have been fighting good people all the way through and I’m happy with it.

- So far it's been fourteen professional wins out of fourteen, ten knock outs, so what are your personal ambitions over the next few years?

Over the next couple of years I want to be healthy and strong and anything else is a bonus really.

- You are just one of a whole host of British boxers who seem to be having success at the moment so would you say that British boxing is in a good place at the moment?

It will be when I win the world title - we need a bit of life in boxing. Bring back the glory days and I’m the man to do it, to breathe life back into it. I have been given the talent and I want to fulfil it I don’t want to be the person who didn’t use his talent.

- Once the Chisora fight is out the way what is on the horizon for you over the nest twelve to eighteen months?

In terms of opponents and fights I will be looking for the next challenger, whoever is game enough to step up and fight.

Before that I’m going be partying for quite a while afterwards and it’s going be good. I’m looking forward to it - more than I have ever looked forward to anything in my life.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw