Tyson Fury quit UK and moved family into mansion after scary incident | Boxing | Sport

Tyson Fury worried he and his family could face assault if he failed to relocate them from the UK. Fury established Morecambe as his residence for nearly 20 years after a festive training camp became a lasting relocation. He settled in the coastal town with teenage wife Paris and the pair brought up their seven children beside the renowned bay.

Their extensive estate and busy family existence have been the subject of two Netflix programmes. However, Fury became alarmed when an individual climbed over his gates while the heavyweight was at the gymnasium. The multi-millionaire has now transferred his family into an £8million, six-bedroom estate on the Isle of Man tax haven.

Fury said: “Sometimes you can be in a place too long and everybody knows where you live. I’ve got an attack dog and everything but the final straw was when a lunatic came over my 40-foot gates. I was at the gym and Paris phoned me going nuts. It was one of our neighbours who saw him climbing over the bins and she phoned the police. He was about 35 and said he was there to be adopted by me and Paris.

“He was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas and said he was here to visit his father and mother. He could have had a knife on him. These people are innocent but when is it going to be one that’s not? When you’re a high-profile person and everybody knows where you live, it’s not good. And he wasn’t the only one; one time there was a guy dressed in seashells from head-to-toe.

“He said God sent him to speak to me but my manager offered him £20 and he grabbed it and vanished. I also had to disconnect my intercom on the gates because it was going off every weekend. I had crackpots parking outside the front and ringing the door bell and asking for me.

“I looked at moving abroad, but it turned out that the Isle of Man is the a perfect place for me. It’s English-speaking, has English pound notes, and I can get an English newspaper from the local petrol station with my coffee and speak my own lingo.”

Fury makes his long-awaited return to the ring today when he faces Arslanbek Makhmudov in his first bout in 16 months. The 37-year-old declared the fifth retirement of his career following his rematch loss to Oleksandr Usyk in 2024. However, a win could pave the way for a much-anticipated showdown with arch-rival Anthony Joshua — or another crack at a world title.

“This is my dream job and boxing is hard to let go of; anything you’ve done forever is hard to let go of,” Fury added. “That’s what boxing is to me, it’s natural and an essential part of my day-to-day life. If that’s taken away then I have nothing left, even though I have everything that every man could ever want.

“I dreamed as a child of being the heavyweight world champion and I have lived it. And here we are again, five times out of retirement and the circus continues.”