IT’S hard not to warm to Tyson Fury 2.0. In his Vegas poolside interview with veteran boxing scribe Steve Bunce this week, the former heavyweight champion and self-proclaimed lineal champ laid out a vision for the future that was so expansive and ambitious it would have made Alexander the Great tremble with uncertainty. 

Fury is fighter at the very top of his powers, popularity and confidence — relishing, you can tell, his re-emergence from the personal hell he resided in for two years after his 2015 victory over Wladimir Klitschko in Germany. 

Gone is the anger and rage of the previous incarnation, replaced now with the contented wisdom of a man who, per Nietzsche, has gazed into the abyss and stepped back before the abyss gazed back into him.