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Surgery to his manus successful Janaury 2024 near Tommy Fury incapable to train aliases container for 18 months
Coral Barry
Combat sports elder journalist
"Having a portion is what costs maine my full family."
It is nan first section of Tommy Fury's BBC documentary and he is explaining why his very nationalist break-up pinch Molly-Mae Hague happened.
The boxer, whose floor plan skyrocketed erstwhile he went connected Love Island successful 2019, is sitting successful his self-described "big" house, alone.
A schematic pops up to opportunity it is 110 days since Hague and their young daughter, Bambi, left.
When Hague announced their break-up successful August 2024, Fury instantly began facing accusations of cheating and getting different female pregnant.
Fury denied each those "disgusting" claims, and he reveals that aft having an cognition connected a semipermanent manus injury, he began drinking heavily.
John Fury, nan begetter of some Tommy and erstwhile heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury, says he told Hague to time off his son.
"During this documentary a batch of my hardest times person been documented," Fury tells BBC Sport.
"[The documentary is about] really to navigate reliable times.
"What's it for illustration down nan scenes of an existent boxing fight.
"And really difficult it is to equilibrium everything - being a family man, combatant and activity life."
The documentary follows Fury arsenic he charts his measurement backmost from intelligence wellness struggles and excessive drinking.
The Englishman credits boxing and his girl Bambi, "the champion point successful my life", pinch helping him most.
And successful May this twelvemonth it was confirmed Fury and Hague had reconciled.
"Training was my escape. I'd ever consciousness astonishing coming retired of nan gym nary matter what was happening, moreover if my life was falling apart," Fury says.
"My narration pinch boxing is arsenic it's ever been. I've still sewage nan aforesaid goals, I'm still hungry.
"I americium still up astatine 4 aliases 5 successful nan greeting running, still training 3 times a day. The hunger is still there.
"If it wasn't for boxing, I wouldn't person what I person successful my life.
"Boxing has opened each azygous doorway for me. I beryllium my life to boxing."
Watch Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury connected BBC iPlayer and BBC Three from Tuesday, 19 August
'Jake Paul knows wherever I am'
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Fury and Jake Paul went 8 rounds together successful February 2023
Fury's boxing profession has followed an different path.
The Mancunian had 2 master fights nether his loop erstwhile he appeared connected Love Island, but pinch his fame and nan emergence of influencer boxing, Fury stepped into that world.
He says his goals are still nan same, he still wants to beryllium a world champion 1 day.
"I americium 26 years old, I judge I person nan talent to do so, I conscionable request nan acquisition and nan time," he says.
But Fury's 2 biggest fights person been against YouTubers KSI and Jake Paul. Paul is simply a regular competitor successful boxing and continues to beryllium 1 of nan astir marketable fighters successful nan sport.
Fury hit Paul by divided determination successful 2023 successful a lucrative bout and while his ambitions are to found himself arsenic a apical contender astatine cruiserweight, he is not ruling retired much crossover fights.
The Englishman was scheduled to conflict ex-UFC prima Darren Till earlier this twelvemonth successful a boxing match, earlier Fury pulled retired of nan contest.
He returned from an 18-month absence from nan ringing successful May erstwhile he hit Kenan Hanjalic successful Budapest.
With Paul connected a six-fight winning streak since facing Fury and bringing boxing to streaming elephantine Netflix, Fury is unfastened to a rematch.
"Jake Paul's a unsocial character. He's doing well. There's nary animosity aliases jealousy there," Fury says.
"He's making large waves and bully luck to him. I'm doing my thing.
"I'm here, I'm fresh but I'm not begging for a fight. I've done my job, I've hit him. I've sewage nan win, he's sewage nan loss.
"Any time he wants to rectify that, he knows wherever I am."
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