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Paris Fury is preparing to reunite with her husband Tyson after the boxer revealed he hasn’t said ‘one word’ to her in three months.
The mother-of-seven, 35, shared a selfie with her eldest son Prince John James, 13, as they travelled in luxury on their private jet to the match in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
Smiling in the snap she wrote: ‘On our way @tysonfury’ after she spoke out earlier this week about the extraordinary measures the heavyweight champion has taken ahead of his next fight.
The boxer, who has been married to Paris for 16 years, revealed he had cut contact with his family completely over the past three months while he has been in training camp ahead of his match with Oleksandr Usyk.
Paris wrote: ‘People don’t see the sacrifices made I’ve let him solely concentrate on this fight. It seems like he’s been gone forever especially with no contact but if it’s what he needs.’
Tyson said of his plans after the fight to Dev Sahni: ‘I’ll be flying home for Christmas plenty of eggnog and mince pies and turkeys and all. I can’t wait for Christmas.
Paris Fury is preparing to reunite with her husband Tyson after the pair confessed they haven’t said ‘one word’ to each other in three months
The boxer revealed he had cut contact with his family completely over the past three months while he has been in training camp ahead of his match with Oleksandr Usyk
‘I wish [the fight] was tonight. It’s been a long camp being away from your wife and kids in three months. I’ve not spoken to Paris three months, not one word.’
Fans took to the comment section, surprised Tyson has cut contact with Paris and asked: ‘Why wouldn’t you speak to your wife and kids? I don’t get that at all.’
Others wrote: ‘This isn’t inspiring, instead this is just sad. He’s abandoned his family for months. He could at least pick up the phone. Poor Paris.#
‘What’s the logic in not talking to your wife at least on the phone or video chat? How does this help his training?’
‘I don’t care who you are or what you’re up to, there is no excuse to not speak TO YOUR WIFE for 3 whole months. Just unnecessary in this day and age. He can spare 5min to do a televised interview yet can’t spare 20 seconds to text Paris?? Pfffft. Not worth it.’
Tyson’s extreme measures show just how seriously he’s taking his rematch with Usyk, the man who handed him his first professional defeat and stripped him of the WBC heavyweight title.
Usyk became the undisputed heavyweight champion in Riyadh when he handed Fury the first professional defeat of his storied career, beating him via split decision.
Taking the upper hand in the clash, Usyk goes into Saturday’s fight with a staggering 60 per cent of the total £150m purse secured.
Paris wrote: ‘People don’t see the sacrifices made I’ve let him solely concentrate on this fight. It seems like he’s been gone forever especially with no contact’
Usyk became the first undisputed heavyweight world champion of the four-belt era by stripping Fury of his WBC title during their first bout in May
The couple have three daughters and four sons (pictured Venezula, 15, Prince Tyson II, eight, Prince John James, 12, Valencia, six, Prince Adonis Amaziah, five, and Athena, three)
Fans took to the comment section, surprised Tyson has cut contact with Paris and asked: ‘Why wouldn’t you speak to your wife and kids? I don’t get that at all’
Fury, who did have the negotiating power in May, will be left with the remaining 40 per cent.
After months of intense training and a complete mental reset, he insists he’s more focused and driven than ever. However, he claims he will maintain the same style of fighting.
‘I need to be more focused this time and not do as much showboating,’ he said. ‘One of the commentators said: ‘Has anybody ever seen Tyson Fury clown this much against even lower level opposition?’ That’s how easy it was for me and you can get complacent.’
However, he went on to add: ‘I won’t change anything. Why would I when I had control of the fight for maybe 80 per cent of it? I’m landing on him at will, head and body, lead right uppercuts, left hooks, right hooks to the body, doubles at times.
‘I don’t need to change anything. I don’t think he can, either, because he ain’t going to outbox me on the back foot. He has to come forward and make a fight of it.’
Fury and Usyk will meet in a 12-round rematch at the Kingdom Arena as the Gypsy King seeks to bounce back from his only defeat in professional boxing career.
This time around there will be three belts up for grabs, as Usyk has since vacated the IBF belt.
Fury claims to have rewatched their first bout ‘a hundred times’ and will be making some adjustments in a bid to cause Usyk’s first defeat of his career in their Riyadh showdown.
He has maintained that he was actually the victor from the first fight, and claims that he wasn’t focused – something he is keen to put right this time.
‘I need to be more focused this time and not do as much showboating, he said via GB News. ‘That’s how easy it was for me and you can get complacent.
‘I don’t believe the showboating cost me the fight but I need to be more focused this time and not do as much.
Fury and Usyk will meet in a 12-round rematch at the Kingdom Arena as the Gypsy King seeks to bounce back from his only defeat in professional boxing career
‘I didn’t feel as if I could have knocked him out at any point. I hurt him a few times to the body and with head shots but I didn’t feel I was going to take him out.’
‘It was my best performance in the last five years, probably more.’
Tyson and Paris have seven children together after welcoming Prince Rico to the clan back in September last year.
The couple have three daughters and four sons, welcoming their eldest child and first daughter, Venezuela Fury, in 2009.
Prince John James followed in 2011, with their brother Prince Tyson Fury II arriving in 2016.