The amazing comeback of Tyson Fury will certainly end up as a big Hollywood production after his career comes to an end. The road that the 31-year-old has travelled is a director’s dream given how much he has had to overcome in order to achieve. It wasn’t long ago that the Englishman was in the worst shape of his life as he sat inactive in the bars of Marbella, which it has to be said, was worlds away from the Dusseldorf ring where he beat Wladimir Klitschko to become the world heavyweight champion.

The dark days

The only activity Fury would do during his time out of the ring would be to fire up his Instagram and send a video out, announcing that he had retired from professional boxing. This would then be followed up with a video a few days later, calling either Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder out as he demanded they fought him. It was indeed a sorry sight as Fury swung from a feeling of ecstasy to despair.

Sadly, it was clear that Fury was fighting some poisonous internal demons that were threatening to get the better of him. The highs of the win over Klitschko in Germany seemed a lifetime away with the former heavyweight champion of the world ballooning to over 400 lbs and seemingly losing his mind.

Fury meets personal trainer Ben Davison

It was at the back end of 2017 that Tyson Fury linked up with personal trainer Ben Davison in a desperate bid to get his life back on track. It was hard to know how seriously to take Fury’s threats of getting back in shape given that it seemed like he had promised to do this in the past, only to relapse and head for the beaches of Spain again.

Slowly the exercise videos came out from both Davison and Fury’s social media pages and you all of a sudden got the feeling that Fury was committed to getting back into shape. Another positive sign was that Fury had taken on a nutritionist. Greg Marriot started Fury on a ketogenic diet was designed to burn fat, but also give him the energy needed in order to complete the daily training that Davison had set out for the heavyweight. This was half the battle won as Davison and Marriot had figured out how to exercise whilst on this ketogenic diet which drastically sped up his return to the ring. In fact, given how much weight Fury began to shed, we can probably say that it’s worth the hype and not an overrated fad.

Fury returns

The timber began to fall as the diet along with a 10-mile daily run and a constant intake of black coffee began reaping massive rewards. 68-year-old promoter Frank Warren had seen enough and signed Tyson Fury up. The comeback was well and truly on. Warm-up fights with Sefer Seferi and Francesco Pinoetta did not give us too much of an indication as to whether Fury still had the boxing prowess to be the best, but the world was able to see just how much weight Fury had lost and how effective the ketogenic diet had been for weight loss.

Extraordinarily, Fury agreed to fight Deontay Wilder after these two comeback fights and people feared the worst given that the Englishman still looked on the heavy side and was far from being fleet of foot. Wilder, on the other hand, was a feared man and had brutally knocked out all of his opponents up until this stage.

The boxing world will never forget what they were treated to on December 1st, 2018 and very few will ever forget the courage Tyson Fury showed in his controversial draw with the dangerous Deontay Wilder. From the first bell to the last, Fury outboxed Wilder but was hard done by a panel of judges who were the only ones in the world that saw that fight as a draw.

The present-day

15 months on from that first fight and Tyson Fury is now the WBC heavyweight champion after brutally defeating Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas. Amazingly, and only two years after drinking sangria on the beaches of Spain whilst weighing 400 lbs, Fury weighed in for the fight against Deontay Wilder at 273 lbs. He went as far down as 249 lbs in 2019 but chose to go to 270 as a strategy for more punching power against Wilder. Some would call that a masterstroke given that Fury stopped Wilder inside seven rounds.

That win at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas completed the comeback. It looks like Fury won’t be getting on a low-cost flight to Spain and is instead here to stay. That is at least what online betting platform Betway suggests, making Fury the favourite with odds of 2/7 as of March 2nd, for the trilogy fight with Wilder. As Fury says himself, “The king has returned,” and indeed, all the signs point towards the next 10 years being dominated by Tyson Fury as the 31-year-old begins to make up for lost time. It truly has been an incredible journey for the Englishman but you get the feeling that it is also just beginning.

Getting active saved Fury’s life

There have been many different contributing factors to Fury’s successful comeback but the starting point was when he linked up with trainer Ben Davison. It all began with a run up his local hill near his home and now two years later, Fury sits at the top of world boxing after conquering all of his demons.