And you’ll have a mental breakdown and won’t recover – or you seek help and try and get better.”
But keeping it all to yourself and not communicating with others, you’re a bottle of champagne being shaken and shaken, waiting for the top to explode. He continues: “One of the best things I ever did was come out and speak about it, because with communication you can get over any hurdle. And as soon as I got help, the sooner I could go back to get recovered.” I never seeked help for my mental struggle until 2016. What advice would I give for young athletes coming through – the best advice I could give anybody – is get the right help straight away. I was as low as any man could ever go, to be fair. “Winning doesn’t mean anything,” Fury says. Her recent admission that winning no longer gives her happiness resonates deeply with Fury, who experienced the same feelings of existential ennui in the aftermath of his own life-changing triumph in Düsseldorf six years ago, when he ended Wladimir Klitschko’s decade-long championship reign and won the WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight titles he would later surrender without throwing a punch. Osaka, who last month hinted at an extended break from tennis after her early exit from the US Open, has spoken about the ways her battles with anxiety can be directly traced back to her star-making win over Serena Williams for her first major title.
It’s a long-overdue conversation that Fury hasn’t necessarily gotten the proper credit for starting. In the three years since Fury repurposed his first fight with Wilder into a platform to discuss his struggles with mental health, a subject once regarded as one of the last taboos in elite sport has since been thrust to the fore, most notably in the public ordeals of Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles this year. I believe anxiety is one of the worst things that anybody could have. “To go from the weight I was at, where I was at in my life, being 400lb, couldn’t sleep with the light off, scared to death of everything, anxiety killing me. “It was internally, externally and spiritually: a combination of the three,” Fury says of his comeback from the abyss. I had a chance to speak with him about it a few days ago.Įven if Fury is battered out of the park on Saturday night and never fights again, that he’s even in this position is a testament to an astonishing return from rock bottom, when he ballooned to nearly 25st and contemplated taking his own life during a 31-month layoff. His return to the heavyweight summit is all the more astonishing considering he was out of the sport for more than two years amid public battles with addiction and mental illness, ballooning to nearly 400lbs and contemplating taking his own life. A quick word about Fury’s remarkable journey to tonight’s fight.
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