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WHEELER DEALER

IT HAS been suggested that Tyson Fury will bank close to £100million for his part in the two-fight deal with Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia, which starts on Saturday night in Riyadh.

But his face lights up and he speaks with far more excitement when he explains how his entrepreneurial spirit was first stoked when he was 10 years old with a 50-quid turnaround in just a few hours.

You never can tell exactly where things will go when Fury sits down with the media. He has been known to flat-bat every question during roundtables or even literally tape his mouth shut.

This time, Fury is in Fury mode. No doubt buoyed by his imminent date with Usyk, where he 

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