Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography

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Born and raised in Manchester, Fury weighed just 1lb at birth after being born three months premature.

Which makes you wonder how he would handle the retirement to which he continually refers in the book. Gloves Off is not a case of bare-fisted self-exposure, but instead a carefully edited version of events. True showman who people either love or hate, you can only appreciate him more after reading this book. This is quite jarring at times, as Tyson often belittles his competition and ascribes weakness to their character through some very subjective opinions. He lives with his wife Paris and seven children in Morecambe, and most mornings can be found running and training along Morecambe Bay.The definite article sounds more definitive, but in reality it’s more of the same – more braggadocio, more humility, more professions of love for his wife and family, more descriptions of his mental health, more threats to retire, more talking up potential fights of the future.

He shares fascinating blow-by-blow accounts of his inspiring victories against Deontay Wilder and Dillian Whyte, his recovery from the depths of depression, and his journey to reclaiming his world heavyweight title. Tyson also shares a side of him that few people get to see and that in the weeks before the biggest fight of his career in 2021 he was sleeping on the hospital floor in intensive care following the premature birth of his daughter Athena who was fighting for her life. Fascinating insight into his mental health but very similar content as the last book (money spinner?

In October 2021, Tyson concluded the trilogy with victory against Deontay Wilder by an emphatic eleventh-round technical knockout. Key to a good sports autobiography is that you get an insight into the real person and the key successes and failures information you didn’t know. The undefeated heavyweight champion Tyson Fury looks back on his life and career to understand his remarkable rise, fall, and rise again, which has seen him journey from the brink of suicide to boxing immortality, culminating in his sensational knockout victory against Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in front of a record-breaking 94,000 fans. Told with unflinching honesty and rock-star charisma, Gloves Off by Tyson Fury is the autobiography of a sporting icon, the like of which we may never see again. One expects a multiple world boxing champ to be a chiseled specimen, but somehow this man who describes himself as a "dad-bod" has defeated many of those muscle-bound men.

The most talented British heavyweight since Lennox Lewis (who boxed for Canada in the 1988 Seoul Olympics) and, some would argue (including Fury himself), the best in history, he has made some shockingly homophobic and antisemitic comments in the past. What will come afterwards, just living at home with his beloved wife, Paris, and their six children? He praises the strict moral values of the Traveller community from which he comes, but sidesteps the alleged wrongdoing of the crime boss seen in his company. Tyson’s book reveals surprising and personal new sides to his character: he opens up about his fairy-tale romance with beloved wife Paris, and their down-to-earth life raising six beautiful children.

What’s more, his trilogy of fights with the fearsome US heavyweight Deontay Wilder are some of the most compelling contests of their division for a couple of decades. That said, Tyson's self-confessed arrogance leads to a character who clearly interprets the thoughts and actions of others through the matrix of his own success story.