Fury rolls out old routine to lighten up heavyweight scene

MANCHESTER, England - Overweight, unhappy and in semi-retirement amid a doping ban, Tyson Fury was walking his dog beside a canal near his home when he thought about what fellow heavyweight boxer Deontay Wilder was saying about him." He said, 'Tyson Fury, he's done,'" Fury recalled. "I thought, 'You know what, I'm a fat pig. Look at the state of me.' I felt like jumping in the water and drowning.

"Then I thought, 'I'm going to turn this around and knock him out.'"

So began the comeback of a fighter who shook the boxing world in November 2015 by ending Wladimir Klitschko's near decade-long reign of the heavyweight division before virtually disappearing from the sport entirely after getting caught up in a downward spiral of drinking and drug use.