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π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then at the other end of that, you have the sport.
So they're two separate things in a way.
So in one area of media, he was being promoted as this incredible force in boxing.
Somebody who had salvaged the career, which he did, of Tyson Fury, was only watching boxing
at home with the Furies I think it is the new Netflix series and Tyson Fury is you know there in all his glory he is a very vivacious character like a Merlotham you know this is a kind of a look inside his family and he's
talking about coming back to boxing and he's talking a lot again about his mental health issues.
But if you go back to when he was in the absolute doldrums, which I think would have been in 2014, 2015, and Daniel Kinahan reached out to him, he has said and Fury's manager has said that he was in debt at the time.
He was, you know, on the scrap heap.
He was hugely overweight, chronically unfit and addicted to numerous substances.
And Kinahan actually thought, I can fix this guy, which was almost a godlike thing to do within the world of sport.
And nobody believed that Fury could actually manage to come back to fitness levels.
And I recall when he went out to work in the gym in Spain and Kinahan was gone, but he had put in place...
And there was a lot of people around Fury that were nutritionalists that were training him.
But there was these videos going out, selfies.
Of course, his very good friend, Billy Joe Saunders, was training with him and supporting him.
And the two of them were kind of lumbering around Marbella at night and jumping in and out of fountains.
And like Fury was like this man mountain that he had really like was a guy, a human being who had let himself go.
go and probably fall into the depths of depression and addiction and etc.
And you're just looking at him going, there's no way this guy is going to come back to peak performance.
And he did.