TYSON FURY wasn't responsible for Tommy's broken rib which cost him his fight with Jake Paul.
The 22-year old Love Island hunk pulled out 12 days before their Florida showdown with YouTube star, blaming a bacterial infection and a broken rib.
Tommy and Tyson Fury practice their medicine ball drill together
A video of Team Fury training was later released from their Morecambe gym. The 33-year old WBC king hammered a large medicine ball into the stomachs of his sibling.
Tommy insists that the old boxing drill Tommy used to strengthen his abdominal muscles and make it more resistant to body punches is not the way he sustained the horrific injury.
The reality TV star said to Unibet Lowdown that Tyson's medical ball wasn't what broke his rib.
"I have had that done to my body in the gym all my life. Every single training session.
"I can take that, and 10x more than that. That video is not how it happened.
"My body was becoming weaker and weaker every day, but I decided to take a little spar and put a little clip on my ribs. It didn't feel right.
Free Bets: Get more than PS2,000 in NEW CUSTOMER DEALS"I had an MRI done, and was in the tunnel for 1hr 45 mins. The doctor stated that he has been doing this for 20+ years and that it is a fractured rib.
"I told it would be fine, but Tyson, my father and the doctor said I couldn't fight.
"And another doctor said to me that if I had boxed I might have suffered a perforated lungs. A broken rib is not something you can fight against.
"The chest was just one thing, but the broken rib was the cherry on top.
"Even though I think I have swallowed the pill, I don’t believe I will. It was such an easy night.
"If you've seen the fight, you'll have seen how easy it would be for me."
Paul defeated Tyron Woodley in the rematch.
Tommy responded by saying: "It is a very bad place you are in when the commentators commentating your fight say, 'It’s getting pretty difficult to watch now.
"And, joking among the commentators: "Who won that round?" "Well nobody." That lasted for more than half of the fight.
"I was watching it, and it was very upsetting to me to sit and watch it. It was very upsetting, so I won't be defending it.
"Because I know that if I was there, he wouldn’t have been going no six to seven rounds, regardless of what it was.
"It wouldn’t have been there because the guy didn’t even throw any punches for the first four to five rounds."
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