E161 - Tyson Fury: Why I want to stop boxing, but I can’t
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Tyson Fury, also known as The Gyspy King, is a professional boxer and the two-time World Heavyweight Champion. In this episode they dive into Tyson’s mental health struggles, his challenging childhood and the dangerous nature of obsession. They explore the difference between Tyson Fury and the Gypsy King, Tyson is a father, son, mental health patient and how the Gypsy King is mental concrete, unbeatable. Although Tyson has celebrated the highest-highs, he has also suffered the lowest-lows, with the most monumental events in his life leading into deep depression and suicidal thoughts.
Through Tyson's struggles, he has now become a mental health advocate and is at a point where he is able to share valuable lessons, explore what he would have done differently and how he is now living one day at a time, being present in every moment…
Tyson's new autobiography 'Gloves Off' is out now: https://amzn.to/3htYhV0
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| 0:31.7 | some bad language and there are themes of trauma and suicide in this conversation. |
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| 1:26.4 | after these big events I'm going to be down. Most of the time I have suicidal thoughts, |
| 1:30.8 | which is kind of crazy even to sit here and admit today. After these big events and these big |
| 1:35.8 | successes, I'm like, proper suicidal for a few days. There's this gonna sound strange, |
| 1:41.1 | but I heard a voice again and it said, don't do this. Think about your kids going up when |
| 1:47.7 | they're not dead and you're gonna be labeled as a weak piece of shit for taking an easy way out |
| 1:52.4 | and leaving everybody and abandoning everybody. And that was the moment that I knew I had to go |
| 1:57.8 | CD-stock to a straightaway regardless of what anybody thought of me and whatever it was gonna be, |
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