Tyson Fury is the master of getting in your head. His Batman antics around Wladimir Klitschko broke through the Ukrainian’s stoic demeanour in 2015, before jokes turned to in-ring taunts during his first world championship win. Deontay Wilder was left infamously rattled by his gift of the gab during their trilogy. Throughout his storied career, it’s been a primary weapon; to get an opponent on the ropes before a bell even rings.
The expectation would be that for a long-awaited ‘Battle of Britain’, his psychological attacks would enter overdrive. Against his far more conceited rival Anthony Joshua, who rarely gives much away, Fury has over a 16 years worth of ammunition on ‘AJ’; from amateur to fading force, from Finchley Boxing Club spars to exposed chins under the Wembley arch.
