I was never very optimistic about that AJ fate happening. All of a sudden, it's my fault. I don't want to fight because I'm a shit house. Please. I fight him on here and I'd flatten him. I have spoken to him and he did say it was you that backed out. Oh yeah. I thought the best men in the world at their prime, but I'm together this plum. I'm gonna call him a chicken nugget.

Why chicken nugget? Just because he's ripped and he's in good shape and I'm jealous. I'm not optimistic that the fight will ever happen. Joshua's fought not one heavyweight in his prime. He said he wants you now. How can you have me now if I've got a rematch with Wilder? Do you know how much the suing case was if I don't fight him? I don't fight him, 80 million dollars.

Even if you give up your belt, would you...

No, it's not the belt.

I could go to that with a belt.

Bang! wilder. Do you know how much the suing case was if I don't fight him? 80 million dollars.

Even if you give up your belt, would you... No, it's not the belt. I could go out with the belt, bang. I had three years out of the ring. I was on drugs and alcohol. I was fat as

I was 28 stone, yeah? Every day I woke up, I just wanted to die.

On the latest episode of the Ovalap, brought to you by Skybet, I travel to Morkum to meet the undefeated WBC heavyweight world champion.

Tyson Fury's dramatic return to regain his heavyweight crown is one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time.

We talk about his battles with depression and his

rivalries with Deonté Wilder and Anthony Joshua. Tyson, welcome to the Overlap and this place

brings back memories of when I used to come here with my nan, my granddad and when I was younger.

We always used to come to Morecam on a Sunday. Tell me why

Morecambe?

Well first of all, welcome to Morecambe Bay guys. This is the place where the magic happens

and the dreams come true. Why Morecam? Well, a long, long time ago, 13, 14 years ago,

I came here for a week over Christmas. I just got married and I was having arguments with her family and my family and everyone was interfering so I thought, right, I'm going to go somewhere neutral. My uncle used to live here and he was a boxing trainer. So he caught on the phone and he said, right, why don't you come to Morecome? He said, and have a week here while you get settled in and you can do some training over the Christmas with me while you. I said, yeah, sounds a good idea. I'll pop down.

So I moved down here for a week and ended up staying here 13 years so far. This suits the boxing Tyson Fury does it. Yes, it does, yeah. I call it Alcatraz, Morkum, because if you go that way, you eat water. You've got to drive an hour to Manchester or an hour to Liverpool. So it's the last point of civilisation really for me. And I need that. I can't be in a place what's thriving every day and there's so much to do. I like to be in a place where there's nothing much to do, just train, eat, sleep, repeat. And that's the way I've been for the last 13 years. What do your kids think of it and your wife Paris? I think when we first moved here it was like it was a neutral ground and it was okay and then all of a sudden you get rooted in. And I always thought, yeah, I'm going to move back to Wimslow and that'll do. But I seem to be totally, deeply rooted in here now. Yeah. in school, I've done all of school in here and I've got all friends here and everything.

And what I find is, if my wife's happy, then I can have an easy life. But if she's, like, not happy, then my life's terrorised. And what about if you're not happy? If I'm not happy, I have to lump it. And that's it. But But the thing is, I'm away along, so I can't be so selfish, you know what I mean? What are you like at home in terms of with the children? I am a full-time, hands-on, dad. Right. While I'm at home, I'm just dad. That's it. He's at it then, six kids? He's done a stop there, is? I think you're so, yeah for sure. It's hard work. It's a full-time job. And in terms of growing up in you, what would you say your childhood was like? I had a good childhood because I was in like a countryside, so we were always running around in the fields, building tree houses and building dens and smashing things up and all that, as kids do. And then when I got to about 13, 14,

I wanted to box. That was all I wanted to do. Was that because your dad? Yeah, my dad. It was just something that I'd loved. My dad influenced it because he was a boxer, but he didn't really encourage it at all, but he said, like, oh, boxing's not for you, like, you're not a good game. was just an opponent, and he had it hard, like, you know what I mean?

Like, he didn't have a proper manager and nothing and all that.

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