Tyson Fury’s butcher makes 200-mile round trip to deliver 24 STONE of meat to ensure he doesn’t fail another drugs test

TYSON FURY’S butcher goes the extra mile – 200, in fact – to ensure the Gypsy King gets 24 STONE of untainted pork, beef and lamb every month.

WBC world champ Fury, who demolished Deontay Wilder for the title in February, is desperate to avoid any chance of contamination after blaming his two-year boxing ban on eating huge quantities of wild boar.

Tyson Fury takes the strain out of his meat-eating by getting it specially sourcedCredit: Facebook

Tyson Fury goes to enormous lengths to make sure he can have no beef with the quality of his meat, getting it delivered from Bennett’s Quality ButchersCredit: Twitter / @pbennetts

Tyson Fury orders far more than his own weight in meat every monthCredit: Twitter / @pbennetts

This is a typical order from heavyweight eater Tyson Fury

The Brit has put in 150-stone orders of Yorkshire-bred meat from old-fashioned Bennett’s Butchers in Leeds Market.

And Fury’s team are not sheepish in checking out exactly where the meat has come from – all the way back to the slaughterhouse.

But butcher Phil Bennett might need to up his own dose of the strength-building, protein-rich food – given the 200-mile round trip he makes from Leeds to Morecambe to give Fury peace of mind that he is eating steroid-free meat.

‘FULL TRACEABILITY’

Bennett said: “He’ll only get his meat from us. An athlete at his level has to trust the meat. He can’t just get it from anywhere because it could have steroids in it.

“We know exactly where the meat comes from and how it’s been reared.

“Everything he needs to know about that meat, we know about it.”

And the Furys have no qualms or queries about the supply of their red meat.

Bennett told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “Tyson’s nutritionist asked us a lot of questions.

“They wanted full traceability back to the slaughterhouse, what it was packed it, how long it had been packed for, has the animal been treated with any drugs, any inoculations.

“Because if any trace of that transfers over to the boxer, it’s world news.”

Phil Bennett lays it on thick for the precise needs of Gypsy King Tyson FuryCredit: Twitter / @pbennetts

Phil Bennett piles it in when he makes his monthly trip to Tyson Fury from Leeds to MorecambeCredit: Twitter / @pbennetts

Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk