Compared to those severe obstacles Tyson will take into the ring with him against Deontay Wilder, Prime Minister Teresa May will regard her heavyweight Brexit battle in Parliament on December 11 as a doddle.
Yet Wilder is only a slight 5-4 ON favourite to hang on to his WBC crown and he will certainly have learned in the last couple of weeks hell hath no fury like a Fury scorned.
Fury contemptuously regards Wilder and Anthony Joshua as imposters. He maintains that as he has never lost inside the ropes he is the only true heavyweight champion of the world.
I’m afraid the Fury who shocked Wladimir Klitschko 36 months ago when he lifted the Ukrainian’s WBA, IBF and WBO belts, no longer exists.
He has been praised for shedding 10st of blubber to get himself in reasonable shape for his appointment early tomorrow morning with Wilder.
But the American is a super-fit, lean, mean fighting machine with deadly power in both fists.
I’m reminded how good physically Muhammad Ali looked 38 years ago when he fought Larry Holmes in Las Vegas. He had got down to 15st 7lb, the lightest he’d been for six years.
But it was an illusion. Ali’s appearance was purely cosmetic and it ended disastrously when he was forced to quit on his stool.
I think Fury is in a similar situation. Obviously he is fit to fight but I doubt if he is fighting fit at world championship level.
I don’t care how much weight Fury has shifted. When you have been away from the rigours of professional boxing as long as he has — plus taking his lifestyle into account — you go soft in mind as well as body.
We know Fury is a much better boxer than Wilder and inevitably at the highest level skilful boxers beat the big punchers.
It won’t be a surprise if Fury is ahead at halfway but that’s when I expect him to start running out of gas and that’s when Wilder will pounce.
We have been led to believe by those who have been on the receiving end that being hit on the head by Wilder is like being mugged with a baseball bat.
I expect Wilder will detonate that paralysing right hand of his somewhere between rounds seven and nine and, as soon as it lands, the 6ft 9in Fury will crash to the canvas like a giant Californian redwood.
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