Paris Fury openly hates watching Tyson take to the ringCredit: Reuters

The boxing champ is taking on Oleksandr Usyk on May 18Credit: Reuters

Paris took to Instagram to start the countdown to the heavyweight showdownCredit: Instagram/parisfury1

“I hate it, I’ve got to be truthful, that’s the flat out answer,” she previously said.

Despite this, the 34-year-old took to Instagram stories to pose in a Fury V Usyk training camp T-shirt and mark that it’s two weeks until the heavyweight showdown.

Unlike Paris, boxing fans are eagerly awaiting the first undisputed heavyweight bout in almost 25 years.

Tyson, 35, will face Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia for what is one of the most highly anticipated fights in recent history.

Paris will be flying out to the Middle East to sit ringside and support her husband.

“I support him but I don’t enjoy it,” she said.

“I hate being there, but on the other hand, I feel like I have to be there.

“I feel like, if I’m not there, what happens if something goes wrong and I’m not with him.

“So, that’s the brutality of the sport and that is the fact of it.

“You really are taking your life in your hands every time you go in there and unfortunately, that’s what he loves to do and that’s just his passion in life, so I’ve got to support him for it.

“But I don’t enjoy a minute of it.”

Paris and Tyson met in 2006 and married in 2008, the same year he made his professional boxing debut.

She has supported every one of his fights and has vowed to never miss one, even previously attending them while heavily pregnant.

“When Tyson used to fight at the beginning it was more of a novelty as Tyson never got punched,” she told talkSPORT in 2021.

“If you look at Tyson now, he still has a straight nose… for boxers, that’s pretty rare!

“And as the years went by and he fought the higher opposition, then he’ll get hit back – and that’s when it became horrible.

“It became not nice to watch.

“And I have said to Tyson in the past, ‘Do you not think you should leave it now? Do you not want to stop now?’

“But, on the other hand I know it’s his love and his passion and it’s what he wants to do most in the world.”