Tommy Fury has revealed the extent of the injury and infection that forced him out of a scheduled boxing match with YouTuber Jake Paul. In a statement uploaded to Instagram Fury claimed he was “throwing up from the pain” he endured during sparring.
“Training camp couldn’t have gone any better for me for the first week, two weeks, but then I contracted a bacterial chest infection, which led to me going to the gym and just not being able to breathe.
Tommy Fury Reveals Injury Forcing Him Out of Paul Fight: “Throwing Up From the Pain”
I was in my sparring sessions, pad work sessions, whatever it may be, just not being being able to breathe and coughing up huge amounts of phlegm all the time.
It led me to sleepless nights and that went on for about four weeks because I had the mindset of “I’m gonna keep training, I’m gonna get through this, I’m gonna have the fight no matter what.”
Four weeks passed and we decided to have a sparring session and I took a little clip to the body and, because my body was so weak due to the virus inside of me…
I instantly knew something wasn’t right. I was throwing up from the pain. I was doubled over, I literally got my bag and went straight to the hospital, straight for an MRI scan, and I got the results back the same day and the results uncovered that I had a clean break in my rib and I had multiple fractures.”
Fury went on to say he fully intended to fight, but was strongly advised against it. “I still for the following week thought it’ll be fine, I can fight, and then it really took the doctor and my whole team to really say, ‘Listen, you’ve got a broken rib and multiple fractures here, you can’t fight.
Even now sitting here filming this video it hasn’t really sunk in that I’m not fighting. “All my focus right now is on getting a new fight date set and recovering.
That’s all I can do right now, I can’t do anything else apart from get my body right as quickly as possible and look for a new fight date with Jake Paul.
There’s no other fight that I want out there, that’s the fight that I want next. Like I said, I’m just gonna recover now and hopefully we can work out a new date for next year.”
Fury will be replaced by Tyron Woodley for the fight on December 18. The event will be broadcast on Showtime pay-per-view.
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