Frank Warren talked about how he decided to sign Tyson Fury when the boxer was at his lowest point.
The Queensberry boss is in the promotion corner of the current WBC heavyweight champion and has been back in the ring since he returned to the ring after a nearly three-year mental health hiatus.
Fury, who dethroned Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany in 2015 to win the WBA Super, IBO, IBF, WBO, Linear and Ring Magazine titles, went astray after a horrendous win at Esprit Arena, having issues with the UK’s Anti-Doping Agency and the British Boxing Regulatory Commission.
He announced in 2018 that he had signed a multi-fight deal with Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotion and stated that he intends to fight at least three times before 2019, starting on June 9 at Manchester Arena.
‘The Gypsy King’ entered a world title match, against then-WBC champion Deontay Wilder, before ending the year. He went on to have a trilogy with the Alabama native, who returned from his second defeat at the hands of Fury when he faced off against Robert Helenius on October 15 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Now the aforementioned Warren is discussing working with Fury on Podcast Everyone, Just Everyone with Dermot O’Leary.
“First of all, he won a world title. He beat Wladimir Klitschko, the best of his generation, in front of 50 thousand people. He took him to school and packed the box for him.
“I put Tyson in position to fight for the title and then it was done through another promoter. I don’t think he will win in Germany. I thought he would win if he fought in England.
“He beat Derek Chisora and that night he was so good that I would have imagined him from then on beating Klitschko, but then he went astray.”
Warren delivered a blow to the 34-year-old when no one else in the game could touch him as he sought to forge a path back into the upper echelons of the sport’s top division.
“It’s really horrible. He committed suicide and I met him. He’s 11-stone overweight, I took him in the most surreal encounter at BT Sport and they were all very suspicious of being behind him.
“Nobody wants to know him and this is the weirdest thing. Surname [BT] did deals for Premier League, Champions League and they don’t know what that is.
“I talked to them all day, he said what he needed to say and the next minute they were working with Tyson Fury.”
Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) was last active in April when he stopped mandatory challenge Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in London for six rounds and is now chasing an all-British showdown with Anthony Joshua, who has accept offer 60-40 for a clash before the end of the year.
