TYSON FURY is back in love with boxing having equated the sport to a marriage.
The 29-year-old, who has battled with depression which led to heavy drinking sessions and taking drugs, has his first bout in over two-and-a-half years on Saturday.
The controversial Irishman takes on Albanian Sefer Seferi in Manchester.
And the ‘Gyspy King’ says, obviously with his wife Paris in mind:
“Boxing is like a marriage – you have to work at it. You do fall in and out of love.
“But I have spiced it back up again, bought her some sexy lingerie and we are back at it, better than ever.”
Tell me, who is Paris?
Tyson met his future wife around 12 years ago at a wedding of mutual friends when she was just 15.
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Like Tyson, who grew up in a gypsy family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, she was also raised in a traditional traveller family in Doncaster, South Yorks.
The pair met again by chance at Paris’s 16th birthday party and took up together, going to the cinema and ice skating every weekend.
He is 6ft 9ins, she 5ft 8ins.
What was their wedding like?
The couple had a traditional wedding in front of more than 300 guests in Paris’ home town in November 2008.
In keeping with the travellers’ tradition they didn’t sleep together until their wedding night.
Explains Paris: “Even after we got engaged, Tyson would sleep in a caravan at my parents’ home, while I slept inside the house.”
How many children do the couple have?
Four. Valencia Amber is the youngest, born last December.
They are also parents to three other children – Prince John James, Venezuela and Prince Tyson Fury II.
Paris told Tyson she was pregnant with Prince John James less than 24 hours before his famous world heavyweight boxing championship victory against Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
Paris had recently suffered the heartbreak of a miscarriage.
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What does the future hold for them?
Fury is hell bent on regaining the world title he was forced to relinquish.
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Outside the ring, he has other plans. Says Paris: “Tyson has said he wants 10 kids and I’d be happy with that.
“God willing we’ll get as many as God gives us.”
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