Tommy Fury has hit back at accusations from his own dad that he wasn't training for his ill-fated fight with Jake Paul.
Fury, brother of heavyweight world champion Tyson, was due to take on Paul in New York on August 6, but was unable to travel to America last week for a press conference. Paul gave his rival a week to prove he was able to fly to America before pulling the plug when he accused Fury of "hiding".
Paul will now fight Hasim Rahman Jr on the same date while Fury has been left to lick his wounds after missing out on a multi-million-pound pay day. And his dad John claimed this weekend that his son had barely been training for the bout and that he had ballooned in weight to 231lb.
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But Fury has taken to social media to hit back, saying: "Recently on social media I've seen more s*** on me than ever. I want to get one thing straight, the reason this fight didn't take place is because I couldn't get in the country, not because I wasn't training or wasn't fit. I was ready and raring to go, I was at the airport on Monday morning with my whole team, ready to fly out and get the show on the road.
"I could. not get into the country and that's why the fight didn't happen, so all this bulls*** about me not being ready and not training, forget about it. If it's not come from me, don't believe it because it's not the truth."
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Fury had already been facing up to traveling to America with his dad and brother before the fight was cancelled. But John told streaming service DAZN this weekend that his son had not been 100 per cent ready. “Tommy wasn't exactly in training," he said. "He'd only had about 10 days because he'd been on holiday and it was a surprising thing for him. I was a way out of it doing these tours and being busy elsewhere so I never got the chance to look at it properly. When I've paid attention, I noticed the whole thing wasn't right anyway.
"But I said ‘Okay, it is what it is, if you want to go over there and box him, do it. You're experienced enough now and it's a 50-50 platform. I know you could be fitter, you're overweight, but it's entirely up to yourself because I'm busy and I can't do it.’ So, he said 'Okay then, I'll do my own thing and I'll go fight him anyway because I can beat him.’"
