Tyson Fury has already come out fighting over his weight ahead of Oleksandr Usyk fight
Boxing news: Tyson Fury is currently preparing for his upcoming fight with Oleksandr Usyk
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Earlier this week, Oleksandr Usyk's promoter aimed a dig at Tyson Fury and warned the Gypsy King to watch his weight.
But the 35-year-old has already made it clear he's not fussed about his body - because he's a fighter, not a body-builder.
Fury's fight with Usyk is set to be announced soon, with the duo previously being scheduled to face off in December.
With the Briton needing more time to recover following his recent victory over Francis Ngannou, however, that's led to a delay.
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Earlier this week, Alexander Krassyuk warned Fury about his weight having agreed to a delay.
“It depends on how he gonna spend this time,” he told the Daily Mail.
“If it brings him to a better shape and better spirit, then definitely yes.
"But we remember Tyson after he defeated [Wladimir] Klitschko [in 2015] and was supposed to fight in the rematch, he spent his time, let’s say, not in the best manner.”
Yet Fury has long made it clear he's not bothered by criticism over his weight and physique due to what he's capable of doing in the ring.
Speaking before his recent victory over Ngannou, he came out fighting by saying: “It’s good to have a good body. I would love to have a good body.
"But I don’t have any hope of having a good body.
“I have been training for well over 20 years and I still haven’t got a good body.
"I’ve been in a training camp, living like a monk, for the past 12 weeks and I still don’t have a good body.
“I didn’t have a good body when I was in my teens, so never mind clocking onto 40 years old.
"But the one thing I’ve learnt is this isn’t a bodybuilding contest.
"Although I don’t look a man who can do long distance or run for 20 miles, I am a man who can do that.
“I think of myself as an old-fashioned kind of guy who can go in there and have a fight, it doesn’t really matter what I look like.
"It’s about getting the victory. If I had a ten-pack and I looked like Adonis – completely unbelievable and I wasn’t winning, it’s pointless.
“So I don’t really care about being fat.
"I actually embrace being fat because my love handles separate me from the rest of the world, ever in history.
"There’s never been anyone like me and there never will be.
“That’s what makes me so tough and that’s what makes me, me.
"If you said to me, ‘Right Tyson, we will give you the opportunity to get rid of the fat on you and we will give you a full six pack,’ I wouldn’t take it because that’s not me.”
Fury's weight ballooned after his victory over Wladimir Klitschko eight years ago.
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And boxing promoter Eddie Hearn recently revealed he turned down the chance to manage Fury because of concerns over his size.
"I was in Monacco at the time. He flew out. I sat down in a board room at this hotel and he walked in.
"I've never seen anything like it. He was massive, he was 26 stone.
"He sat down and he could hardly talk, he was sweating to the floor."
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