Tyson Fury

Joe Joyce is listing some of his biggest influences when he reaches the names Michelangelo and Sandro Botticelli.The active heavyweight widely recogni.

“The focus aspect, ‘cause if you’re sitting there for hours on end focusing on an image, trying to reproduce and problem solve. You want to have control of your brush strokes – not have them control you. “The problem solving – you want to get it accurate. If you come back the next day, fresh, then you can start working on it again, and hopefully the paint’s dried. “I started off in secondary school – I was doing photo realism. If you look at a painting, some you look at for two seconds, and some you look at, ‘Hang on a minute. “Sometimes, when you’re trying to get something, and you’ve been working on it for ages, you can start making it worse. “I was trying to get a studio space to work on it after my last fight [the stoppage victory over Joseph Parker in September], ‘cause I wanna make some more pieces, to perhaps put them up for sale or have an exhibition. If you spread yourself too thin then both won’t be complete – you’re not putting your full energy into them, so I do one or the other.” He was even said to have been enduring an uncharacteristic run of defeats while he prepared for his first fight with Hasim Rahman, when he so unexpectedly suffered an explosive knockout defeat. I used to like going and looking at them and appreciating their magnificence. Your brush strokes and your marks, and the expression of your work.