YOU MUST BE HAPPY FROM INSIDE TO ACHIEVE TRUE HAPPINESS

Tyson's Fury first world heavyweight title came back in 2015 after beating Vladimir Klitschko.He was a determined man. He won many fights.

Suddenly he ballooned in weight up to 330 pounds (=150 kg), stopped going to the gym, and began abusing alcohol and other harder substances.

His career-making victory against Klitschko became a sad reminder of how far Fury had fallen. Now suffering from depression and bipolar disorder, Tyson was vocal in interviews about his unwillingness to live anywhere. When people went on to remind him of his family, his riches and his achievements, he would shoot them down, simply by saying that those things meant nothing if he wasn't happy in himself. He had lost his joy. 

On the 12th of October 2016, an investigation found Fury unable to defend his titles and he had to vacate his world titles.

Within the space of a year, Tyson Fury had reached the summit of the mountain, before falling harder than anyone could have possibly foreseen.

Fury tried to get back on the right track in 2018. On the 10th of January he successfully reapplied for his boxing license, on the condition that he would keep the boxing association up to date with medical records after visits to his psychologists.

 His depression and bipolar had not magically disappeared, but Tyson had found a new lease on life. His mental illness was something that was going to stay with him for life. Instead of letting it get the better of him, Tyson decided he had to adapt to it and make his life something he could be proud of again.

Although he would have to earn his way back to the top, Fury immediately set his sights on WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. This was in order to retain his place at the top of the heavyweight division, but also because Wilder himself had said in the past that Fury would never come back from the hole in the ground he had dug for himself.

If he wanted to get back to the top, Fury would have to train harder than he ever had before. This physical training gave him a new purpose; as soon as he was able to motivate himself with the thought of going to the gym and training, he shrugged off the life-threatening addictions he had succumbed to previously.

The training worked - over two years, Tyson Fury lost 125 pounds (=57 kg). After showing his natural talent in his return fights, he was ready to face Deontay Wilder for the WBC heavyweight title. 

The first fight ended in a controversial draw, which many thought to be favorable to the Wilder camp. Fury did not become despondent however. It only made him train harder.

When the rematch eventually came around on the 22nd of February 2020, Tyson Fury became the first man to knock Deontay Wilder down and became WBC heavyweight champion after a dominant display.

Unlike his first world heavyweight championship victory, Fury has maintained his ambition, going from strength to strength in training, and not seeing the world title as the end of the road anymore.

This story shows that you can achieve greatness but sometimes in the midst of it you fall.  When Tyson Fury won his first heavyweight championship, many questioned why Fury didn't simply appreciate what he had. However, Fury wasn't happy in himself, so there is no way he was going to be made happy by material things. We must begin by loving ourselves before we can love anything else.