When you think of the foods that professional athletes swear by, you would be right to imagine oatmeal, pastas, greens and fish. However, there's one meal that WBC champion Tyson Fury swears is the secret to his success - which he eats before every fight.
The 18 stone 'Gypsy King' says that he ditches the health-kick and opts to tuck into a plate piled high with his guilty pleasures the night before stepping into the ring for 12 rounds - admitting that he goes as far to order the dish in fancy restaurants.
The undefeated world champion dubs the dish his 'death row' meal, adding that it's his favourite thing to eat in the whole world.
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Speaking on the High Performance podcast on Monday, he said: “My three non-negotiable behaviours, or three things that makes me high performance is fish fingers, chips and beans. It’s my death row meal and that’s what makes me high performance.
"I have it before every fight. It’s my favourite meal in the world.”
He added: “I was in America, in a big fancy restaurant in New York, and everyone was having lobsters and all this fancy truffle and whatever else - all these fancy fish things that I can’t even name. And I don’t even like any of this like seafood and all that.
"I’m not a seafood person. She (the waitress) said ‘Well what can our chef make? Anything you want’.
“I said ‘Tell you what I’ll have - fish fingers, chips and beans’. And she said ‘Beans? Like green beans?’ I’m like ‘No - like breakfast beans’. And she said ‘What is this?’ - because they don’t have beans for breakfast in America.
"So I got a picture up and she’s like ‘Oh, like barbecue beans’ - because they have barbecue stuff. And I’m like ‘Yep, that’s what I want - fish fingers, not crisps, I want like chunky fries, and barbecue beans’.”
So there you have it, if you want to become heavyweight champion of the world one day, keep tucking into your retro school dinners and you should be sorted!
The Morecambe-based boxer steps into the ring on December 3 to face off against Derek Chisora for the third time. The bout will take place at Tottenham Hostpur's stadium in London.
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