Tyson Fury's wife Paris suffered miscarriage day before Oleksandr Usyk fight

Tyson Fury lost his unborn son the day before he fought Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title.

Fury, 36, who has seven children with wife Paris, relinquished his belt and unbeaten record to Usyk after a thrilling fight in May. Paris, 34, who was six months pregnant, had told her husband she would not be at ringside in Riyadh because she was suffering from high .

But Fury entered the biggest fight of his career knowing deep down his wife of 16 years had suffered a miscarriage 4,000 miles away in Morecambe. "When she said she couldn’t come over, I knew there was a problem," he said. "She usually comes out on fight week but she said she had high blood pressure.

"I knew she wasn’t coming over on the Friday and [Saudi chief] Turki Alalshikh offered us a private jet to get around the high blood pressure and said he would bring the doctor with her. She said she couldn’t come and I asked her what was up and asked her to tell me but she wouldn’t. So I knew, I knew there was a problem. I said to my brother, ‘She’s lost that baby’. She never told me she had lost the baby, but I knew.

"I am not making excuses but she was six months pregnant; 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. I could not be there for her in that moment and that is tough for me. To go through that on your own, that isn’t good. I have been with the woman for longer than I wasn’t with her, so it is hard that I couldn’t be there with her in that time. When I got back I got the inevitable confirmation that it was gone but she kept it to herself."

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Paris previously gave birth to a stillborn baby in 2014 and suffered a miscarriage when she was eight weeks pregnant four years later.
She was told she had miscarried the same day her husband made his boxing comeback after almost three years out of the ring - and didn't tell him until after the final bell. But Fury, who will attempt to avenge his defeat by Usyk in their rematch on December 21, insists his performance was not affected by his family's latest tragedy.

"To go through that on your own, that isn’t good, but it’s not an excuse - hell no. I am a man of honour and I do what I have to do when I am in there. I don’t think about that sort of stuff when I am in the fight. Nothing outside the ring matters, there is no emotion; you think about all that stuff afterwards. Will we have any more kids? I don’t know if she’s back to normal from that. It was only a few months ago and it takes a lot of getting over."