Comments Thread For: Fury - A Champ of Mental Health, Whether He's Champ Or Not

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By Corey Erdman - When Tyson Fury steps through the ropes on Saturday night to face Sefer Seferi, he will no doubt be expected to win. Divorced from the context in which this bout came about, it is a gimme victory. But that would require ignoring Fury's journey to get there, the greater fight he is fighting, one which he wasn't expected to win at all. As grisly as it may sound, there was a time not too long ago when it appeared more likely...
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[Letmaku]

Maybe he can change his name from Tyson Fury to Tyron Jury just like Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. The name can help him to be one of the greatest boxers in his time! 😇

[1hourRun]

As grisly as it may sound, there was a time not too long ago when it appeared more likely that Fury would wind up dead than in a boxing ring ever again. The only fight he could wage was the one with depression and mental illness.

The heavyweight champion of the world was prepared to drink, use drugs and eat himself to death before ever defending his crown. What happened to Fury is perhaps unprecedented in the history of sports,

Rather than consider what could be done to help Fury or fighters potentially dealing with the same issues, the main topics of discussion were why Ring Magazine hadn’t yet stripped him of his title, and mockery of how much weight he had gained.

Give me a break Corey Erdman! this is BOXING! You want us to throw Tyson Fury a pitty-party?! Boo-Hoo! The fraud deserved all the rebuke he got and is still making a mockery of the sport fighting a cruiserweight bum! Tyson Fury should DIE!

[P4Pdunny]

glad he's back doing what he enjoys for his sake

[5000boxing]

Seffner Seffneri might stop fury.. lol.

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[I]

Tyson Fury should DIE!

What an idiot you are.

[Clegg]

A guy who repeatedly lied throughout his career uses steroids to win the title, gets caught and uses mental illness as an excuse to deflect criticism while having fun doing coke and partying. If you want to believe it, your choice, but how many times does someone have to publicly lie before they don't get the benefit of the doubt? Is a guy who used steroids to win the biggest fight of his career supposed to be too much of a nice guy to lie about depression when trying to duck the rematch?

I still remember when Fury lost to McDermott and got the robbery, and there was supposed to be an instant rematch. Fury claimed he 100% had to have a random interim bumfight first and then after claimed he broke his hand in the bumfight so needed time to recover, then needed a warmup fight to test the hand out before the rematch could finally happen. Then all the Price ducking that involved more lies told to the gullible fans, and all this was at the prospect phase against domestic guys.

Look at how Fury is comparing himself to Ali because of the exile. Arguably the greatest boxer ever missed years of his prime because he took a stand on an important issue, it seems disrespectful for a steroid user who got caught to compare himself to that. But as with the mental health claim and the contamination claim and all the other BS claims from Fury it's done with gullible fans and journalists in mind rather than reality.

And I say all this without any 'hate' for the guy or attempt to say he's the worst human being in boxing history or ****** shit like that. Boxing has had over a century of guys who sometimes behaved like scumbags outside the ring but people watched, cheered for them inside it, that's the nature of the sport. But it's laughable for the writer to put this guy up there as someone who is a real nice guy, just a victim, a champion for us all, the hero Gotham deserves etc.

[nycsmooth]

We'll see how he looks in the ring but everything that happened to him pretty much was brought on by his personal self and if he had control of him self nothing would have happened... I can't say I'm happy for him or congratulations he is his own enemy...

[Lomasexual]

Mental health is no joke.

If he is suffering from those kinds of demons, then I hope he gets the help he needs.

[Froch_uppercut]

We'll see how he looks in the ring but everything that happened to him pretty much was brought on by his personal self and if he had control of him self nothing would have happened... I can't say I'm happy for him or congratulations he is his own enemy...

Well......yes, he did all of those things to himself, as you say, but they are still SYMPTOMS OF HIS MENTAL ILLNESS.

He did them BECAUSE he has depression, not that he has depression because he did them.

I'm not a fan of his and think he's a bit overrated, but he's fought hard to try and put that behind him. I sincerely hope he stays on a healthy path and makes good choices outside the ring.