Paris Fury, the wife of former unified heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury, suffered a miscarriage the night before his undisputed title fight against Oleksandr Usyk in May, Tyson revealed.
Tyson and Paris were pregnant with their eighth child before the Usyk fight. Paris did not travel to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the fight due to health complications. Fury opened up about the couple’s loss at a press conference on Wednesday to promote Usyk vs. Fury 2 on Dec. 21.
“She lost [the baby] on the Friday of the fight, which was pretty shit,” Tyson said. “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. 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.”
Giving birth is common when dealing with a fetal loss or stillbirth after 20 weeks of pregnancy, generally through doctor-induced labor or natural childbirth.
Tyson, who fought Usyk to a split decision loss in May, was concerned after his wife…
