The problem lies in his personal culture.
If I had to work with him I would first find out what his real culture is, because he contradicts himself. Fury tells us so much about what he believes and thinks, but then he says the complete opposite. “When I work with individual sportspeople, the first thing I really work on is their culture. They’re simple principles, but they make you either someone people want to follow or shy away from. How you talk, how you use your time, how you eat and drink, and how you greet people. Once you become the kind of person where everyone is following everything you say, language is really important. Would Botha be up for the challenge of setting Fury straight, and how might he do that? “Any culture in the world, including winning and losing cultures, has the same four principles: greet, eat, time, talk.
It’s time the public keeps them accountable, because we don’t really do that and they just keep going.” “If we think of Oscar Pistorius’ situation, they are so deep in the bubble they think they are going to get away with whatever they do. He adds that the same applies to Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013. Surely influential figures like Fury - he has 5.6 million followers on Instagram and 2.1 million on Twitter - need to be more responsible? “We should keep them accountable, because their bubble inflates higher and they live above the rest,” Botha says. “Nobody can hit against the bubble, but they can hit from inside outwards as much as they like and as often as they like.” But they can say what they like and they get away with it,” says sports psychologist Jannie Botha.
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“The crazy thing about professional sports stars is that they start living in such a bubble that they almost become their own gods in the sense that nobody can say anything towards them. A survivor of substance abuse and mental ill health - he has spoken on those issues emphatically and long after his outbursts in 20 - and blessed with a personality to match his outsized physicality, he is the best thing to happen to professional boxing since Muhammad Ali. He is celebrated inside and far outside the ring. Responsibility and accountabilityīut will Fury become too much for even boxing to bear? It’s complicated. So there was happiness when he returned to the big time by stopping Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas in February 2020 to win the World Boxing Council title.
That Fury is box office gold means more than anything else. But fight fans, and the promoters and broadcasters who feed the monster, are made of less finicky stuff. Had he not been a boxer, that might have been the end of his career. He claimed the latter’s presence in his body was caused by eating uncastrated wild boar. In October 2016, Fury relinquished his titles as an investigation loomed into his admitted use of cocaine and the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe.” In another interview, to talk about a previous interview, he said: “I believe a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back. One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia,” he added. “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home. In December 2015, before he took four versions of the world heavyweight title off Wladimir Klitschko - brother of Vitali, also a former world champion and these days the mayor of Kyiv - in Düsseldorf, Germany, the noisily religious Fury said in an interview that the end of the world was nigh. The month before, he earned a fine of £3 000 for describing two other boxers, David Price and Tony Bellew, as “gay lovers”. In April 2013, in the days before he knocked out Steve Cunningham at Madison Square Garden in New York, Fury told a reporter he would “hang” his sister if she was, in his estimation, “promiscuous”. It’s surely the least a confirmed misogynist and homophobe could do, especially one who has been beating people up for a living since December 2008. Not that it should be doubted that were he, for instance, involved in a road rage incident, he wouldn’t resort to violence. Because we don’t have to put up with Fury. Happily, here in the real world we don’t have to think about that. Where would you be if British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury punched you with all the ripping power packed into his 2.06m and 120kg frame, and the experience of his 33 professional bouts? In hospital? Worse?
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