The Tyson Fury road show continues, although it’s beginning to sound as though it won’t stop in the very place it started.
It’s hard to say, because, well, Fury has so much to say. He has more to say than Charles Barkley. Pick the day or the hour, and he’ll say something else in a tour that is part Kardashian, part lousy lounge act and always uproarious.
In his latest missive, he says he’s unhappy with U.K. fans. He warns that he might just leave.
“They had their chance,’’ Fury told the U.K.’s Sunday Times. “They didn’t treat me well.’’
If that’s goodbye to the U.K., then watch out America. He might be saying more than just hello. He might be moving in.
“Over here (in the United States), I get treated like a superstar,” Fury said.
Then, of course, there were reasons – mostly words – to wonder whether Fury is serious. A heavyweight with a solid feint is pretty good at the rhetorical head fake.
He told the Sunday Times that he is weary of celebrity while also hard at work generating as much of it as he can.
As he waits on a projected rematch with Deontay Wilder in February, Fury has been selling his autobiography, “Behind the Mask”. He has had a role in a pro wrestling show in Saudi Arabia and talked about going into mixed martial arts. He’s also doing his own four-part television documentary, “Meet The Furys”.
He’s doing he documentary, he said, “so people can see the real Tyson Fury.’’
But then, he said: “I hate fame.’’
Really.
“When I got to a big city it’s just a nightmare,’’ he said. “Torture. Honestly, the only bit I enjoy is going to the gym. That’s what makes me happy. Everything else is just what I’ve got to do.”
The only thing for certain: He’s doing it just about everywhere.