TYSON FURY insists his $200million (£165m) Saudi Arabia windfall won’t stop him wearing Asda’s £7 knock-off Crocs and eating wife Paris’ packed lunches.
The 35-year-old WBC Gypsy King boxes MMA heavyweight Francis Ngannou in a cross-over clash in Riyadh on Saturday night to tee up the December 23 undisputed decider with Oleksandr Usyk and a likely spring rematch in the same stunning spot.
The money is astronomical and Fury doubts he will ever fight back in the UK again, even though he has proven himself capable of selling out football stadiums in the middle of our freezing winters.
Life for the Gypsy King, his children and his children’s children will never be the same again but the old-school Traveller values remain the same, as does the 20st superstar’s appetite for his wife’s sandwiches.
Fury told SunSport: “I believe I have just signed the biggest deal in British boxing history.
“I am not allowed to talk about numbers but the bag is big, mother-f***ing big.
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“It blows all the football deals that Neymar and [Cristiano] Ronaldo have done out of the water, it is big, big, big.
“But I have made big money before and it doesn’t change me.
“I still have my wife’s packed lunches and my rip-off Crocs from Asda.
“I love my wife’s cooking, she has to pack my sandwiches for my packed lunches whenever I travel at home.”
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Fury won the WBA, IBF and WBO world titles – that Usyk now holds – in 2015 when he bamboozled Wladimir Klitschko.
And then, following a three-year hiatus, he dominated WBC champ Deontay Wilder in three iconic fights.
So he has previously dismissed the furore around holding all four belts simultaneously and being the first undisputed heavyweight ruler since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
But now, after a couple of false dawns, the prospect of collecting all four fragmented belts, in one of the richest sporting occasions in history, is a masterpiece for the 6ft 9in switch-hitter.
In his own unmistakable tone and terms, he told us: “Undisputed will be nice, if it comes.
“But, if it never happens, sod it! It’s not what I am about.
“I am about f***ng motherf***ers up, getting paid and getting laid.
“I am not a prize fighter for brass buttons!
“I am sure Van Gogh had his haters but I can’t name any of them now.”
Both Saudi-based Cristiano Ronaldo and UFC megastar Conor McGregor are expected to be ringside for the Kingdom Arena spectacle, where the ring is expected to rise out from the ground like something from a Hollywood movie.
And now the Kingdom is paying crazy money for Fury’s services, he has plans to topple both rival millionaires for one of the top spots in sport.
“I want to top the Forbes rich list,” he said. “And I think I will do that at the end of this year or next.
“I want to be the No1 earner in all of sports and that is all I want to do next, my only goal now.
“Conor earned a lot of money out of his career, fair play to the man, he did well.
“But I am going to top that sports list next and now I have that goal set in my mind, everyone else is f***ed.”
Starting with Francis Ngannou, presumably.
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Because Fury cannot let his sparring partners bank a practice round, or his brothers win a hand of cards.
So what hope does Oleksandr Usyk and the rest of the sport have?
“I never let anyone beat me at anything,” he said deadly seriously. “I wouldn’t even lose a game of cards. I have to win.
“In this boxing game, to be successful you have to be a selfish, ugly b*****d and I am very good at that.
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“It’s not about what anyone else does because they won’t pay my bills, only I will.
“So I don’t give a f*** what anybody else is doing, only what I am doing.”
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