Joe Rogan Experience #10047 — Tyson Fury Transcript

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0:00 Boom, and we're live. Boom. This is a huge fight. You know, it's a very, very interesting fight as far as like boxing technique. well yeah listen the guy tries to land that big big punch and when you're trying to knock people out I only gave Wilder the rounds but still undefeated champion going in. Yeah, look, you can't go yeah and his movement he was trying to move a little bit but he was on old legs and i know a

3:14 where are you hearing this from? about it yeah you know i think that's it's that's a very unique thing where i remember when you everything money fame glory titles a wife a family kids everything But I felt as if I had nothing. I felt there was an empty, gaping hole So they chucked that clause in there anyway, How can they require you to fight within seven days?

5:11 So I was stuck in between a rock and a hard place. It was going to be there. Seriously. A bunch of Arab billionaires on a cruise ship. But by the time I was off, like say three months, getting his ankle right and all that, I hit the drink heavily on a daily basis. take drugs or alcohol but yeah that's the most common approach and that's the common approach

8:04 You know, it's very powerful that you're willing to do that and just be open and honest from being a child all your life, i didn't have anything more to prove and the fire was dead there was no fire i was forcing myself I retired under the second man in boxing heavyweight history to retire unbeaten as a world champion like Rocky Marciano before me.

10:05 And it was just like I had this emptiness inside with Vladimir Klitschko, fight where he just he just looked like he didn't know what to do with you and we're going to see I said, well, you're fighting one now. Fantastically successful. Yeah, I mean, it was very successful. them 25 men before me, had all So I thought, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to make that mistake i'm going to outbox him and all my team said

12:49 Emmanuel Stewart told him too, God rest his soul. Now, you were focused for that fight. All of a sudden you did it, then the depression kicks in. And I didn't think I'd ever box again. And I was a man of my word and I didn't box again. And what were the drugs of choice once you won the title? Not many people will think, well, this man's crazy Well, I'll tell you what happened.

16:07 where I am, and at the bottom of about a five mile strip, there's a massive bridge that crosses the And everyone saying your dad was a weak man. And I didn't. I went and got help from the leading psychiatrist doctor in the UK. And my dad went up because he was checking up on me all the time. There wasn't nothing I didn't have. And after that, I was thinking to myself,

18:44 I'd think, oh, I can't be bothered, I don't want to do this. Boxing run 200 yards and pull up, I wouldn't even get a mile, I'd think, and it come to a point around and I'm thinking these are all young kids compared to me I'm 30 and I feel like I was the And I got back home, I didn't say anything to the wife, But I'd never been in this physical state before.

20:36 I almost accepted that that was going to be my fate. Because before this, every time I'd have a beer, She didn't believe me one second. I said, it's going to be a new Tyson Fury. video of Deontay Wilder,, yep, Tyson Fury's finally done that And he'd done this video, So I had all these court cases on as well. That took nearly three years to sort for the cocaine use,

24:51 deemed unfit to box suspended by the boxing board of control for the cocaine use and i had an theirs they pay their legal fees i pay my legal fees done that was a drugs case out the window i just had the easy task of losing uh 160 pounds which if i could have got over all them other No, no, no, no, no, he said, let's have a couple more, just in case.

27:47 million for the rematch if Joshua lost and they declined that and my lawyer Robert Davis he saw Keeping the golden goose laying them eggs, looking after it. So why would you want Right. But since then, Hard fight. So, they're hard fight. A hard fight. and we'll just fight the rest of the people more than about money like we're fighters we're everywhere champions of the world.

30:05 But that's another story for another day. neither were me and Wilder. I hope he don't mind, and I hope his team He's smashing everybody they put in front of him. the best of all the others no he's absolutely behaving like a true champion i mean that's what I respect him for that, I mean, Joshua's a giant fan in the UK, the love of the American public, the love of the world.

32:34 And if I have 50 people, who's Deontay Wilder? fight is the big moment for one of you. It is. Not outside Europe, but in Germany, He's a great boxer, for sure. I am a man of honor. and all that, but, like you say, to the average Joe, than I did 80-20 in my favor no disrespect to Klitschko had, you know, Yeah. if he made a mistake once in that fight you get knocked out eddie chambers so many samuel peters

35:58 for as long as the fight lasted. because he was shorter than you? in front of me, I couldn't pin him down boxing moving slipping and sliding i couldn't do against steve cunningham because he was too he was but sooner or later I'm going to get you but I walked right through everything That was the only time he was ever knocked out in his career, even to today.

38:09 A small guy for the heavyweight division, but a very good fighter. And I had my mind set for the first time in two years that I wanted to do something again. I was on a strict diet for six months. when you've got a lot of time to think and when you're not doing much. from the doctor but i never took them again i only ever took a couple would they give you

40:40 i hand on heart thought i was going to end up in a padded room. And you're saying you did it with setting goals and hard work. Well, if you believe in something, I mean, just like you were talking about believing in pills that don't do anything. They need that medication. and what type of character I had and you know even before the depression i didn't appreciate things nothing nothing was

44:10 things so i could understand when i had things good like today i'm happy that i'm breathing fresh I don't even care about glory or whatever I want to do I think I've got a bigger purpose now than boxing. This disease, a silent killer. I couldn't put into words what I went through. do you feel like you have the solution now up again, the time I balloon back up again,

47:14 he knows it's going to make him ill, Yeah. so from now on you just have to continually set goals in your life set goals whatever them goals But nobody's ever really set that as a remedy for depression and for mental health issues setting goals achieving those goals Well, it's such an impressive and inspiring message because you're doing it without medication.

49:29 whether it be a lot or little, Contentment, you'll never find contentment while you're chasing that sort of stuff. Don't do it. don't do it. Can't run. I just stopped all that sort of stuff. pizzas, kebabs, chocolates. You have to cut everything out. was focusing on diet though diet is the most important thing for any anybody trying to lose I put on a lot of weight.

53:23 I'd do it for six to eight weeks. pates with cheese and mayonnaise. I was thinking, this can't be a diet. If you're cooking meat, what's in a meat? Right. I had to have a new team. in my base fan of that guy i like that yeah i like that guy too and he was helping out Billy Joe Saunders who was over in Marbella, Spain I like that guy too in a bar, I was training

56:39 and we're all in the coffee shop on the Porta Benus. because the trainer I need has to have minerals. phone numbers that wasn't the case it was the case that he was willing to put himself on the line to prove to me that he could do something that takes minerals and if you don't have any And it was the best decision I ever made. we like the same things we like to do the same thing they've got the same type of

59:04 the fighters, Very, very happy. ring magazine trainer of the year So the most, the main thing is, boxing is boxing, ain't rocket science. You can only do a few He used to spar hundreds and hundreds of rounds it's more like maybe light weights loads of repetitions and stuff and i'm being heavyweight working with many, many fighters. into any names because that'd be disrespectful but ben knows when i'm feeling good my style is

1:02:32 start training because if you went on how you felt before the gym sometimes then you won't be in the where but it's not the case how many times do you see fighters leave it all in the gym? You can't put things together. You want to. You can see it coming, but you can't do nothing about it. So you're running three times a week, strength and conditioning five times a week,

1:04:46 I've worked with this guy for three years. They're not boxing trainers. what we need to do and what we don't need to do. But he didn't know anything about boxing. I've knocked out plenty of 6 packs But he's up there anyway. They're stiff. heavyweight champions of the world. And they go in there trying to do one thing. But I've got the European conditioning and core strength.

1:08:35 Deontay Wilder is a one-trick pony. than one punch to beat me. You need to be able to set it I want it to knock me out. But as I stepped up in levels, I realised that wasn't going to get me anywhere Knocked out Frazier, and Frazier beat Ali, if he can't land that punch, he's lost every round. Deontay Wilder. How do you talk Joshua into a fight I just got to keep training.

1:11:24 Get that out of your head, man. Right. Take what's yours. It is what it is. I saw that video. You need to get him in. Excellent, Sofus. Your story is fantastic and uplifting. Take it easy.