Tyson Fury is slated to face Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch in December in Saudi Arabia, but the previous time the two men fought in May, Fury’s family suffered a traumatic event.
The boxer revealed that the day before his May 18 bout with Usyk, Fury’s wife, Paris, had a miscarriage six months into her pregnancy, TMZ reported.
Paris had called Fury to alert him that she wouldn’t be able to travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia because of high blood pressure.
However, alarm bells quickly started going off for Fury.
The fighter said that his wife wouldn’t tell him what was really going on.
“She never told me she had lost the baby, but I knew. When I got back I got the inevitable confirmation that it was gone, but she had kept it to herself,” he said.
The couple has been married since 2008 and have seven children together.
This came after Paris had suffered a miscarriage in 2014.
Fury lamented being so far from his wife at the time of the miscarriage in May.
“It’s not like a small miscarriage at the beginning, you have to physically give birth to a dead child, on your own, while your husband is in a foreign country. To go through that on your own isn’t good,” he said.
Fury and Usyk will fight again on Dec. 21 in a rematch after Usyk defeated Fury in May via split decision.
He told ESPN in an interview that he would be “more focused” during the rematch and described the bout as a “big fight.”
“Obviously it’s a massive, massive fight for both of us,” Furry told ESPN. “And it’s going to be a tough fight either way, and obviously I want to win badly because obviously I want to avenge my only loss. And it means a lot because I get the rematch straight away rather than having to chase someone around for the rematch.”