TYSON FURY said his “love handles” will help him beat Francis Ngannou.
The eccentric Gypsy King has always boasted about being able to knock out chiselled rivals while coming into the fight “fat”.
He returns on Saturday in a crossover clash against ex-UFC champion Ngannou, 37, who stands 6ft 4in with hulking abs.
And Fury, 35, has already signed to fight Oleksandr Usyk right after, in what will be the heavyweight division’s first four-belt unification.
But the undefeated WBC champion has vowed not to mess with his winning formula as he told the Daily Mail: “It’s good to have a good body.
“I would love to have a good body. But, I don’t have any hope of having a good body.
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“I have been training for well over 20 years and I still haven’t got a good body.
“I’ve been in a training camp, living like a monk, for the past 12 weeks and I still don’t have a good body.
“I didn’t have a good body when I was in my teens, so never mind clocking onto 40 years old. But, the one thing I’ve learnt is this isn’t a bodybuilding contest.
“Although I don’t look a man who can do long distance or run for 20 miles, I am a man who can do that.
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“I think of myself as an old fashioned kind of guy who can go in there and have a fight, it doesn’t really matter what I look like. It’s about getting the victory.
“If I had a ten-pack and I looked like Adonis – completely unbelievable and I wasn’t winning, it’s pointless. So I don’t really care about being fat.
“I actually embrace being fat because my love handles separate me from the rest of the world, ever in history. There’s never been anyone like me and there never will be.
“That’s what makes me so tough and that’s what makes me, me. If you said to me, ‘Right Tyson, we will give you the opportunity to get rid of the fat on you and we will give you a full six pack,’ I wouldn’t take it because that’s not me.”
I actually embrace being fat because my love handles separate me from the rest of the world, ever in history.
Tyson Fury
Fury pointed to genetics as a reason for his frame and also threw his brothers under the bus too.
He said: “I am fat now, I was fat as a baby and I will be fat on my death bed.
“We’re all fat. Hughie is fat, Shane’s fat, my dad’s fat and even my mum’s fat. I hope she’s not watching this. But, we’re a fat family.
“He trains every day, my brother Hughie, like unbelievable. He’ll run, train, box.
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“I am the same. Two-three times a day, in or out of camp but I’ve always been fat.
“Even when I got down to 17 stone, like this, I still had love handles. It’s my trademark for sure.”
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