Laura Woods forced to apologise during live Tyson Fury interview in which he later vowed to KO Oleksandr Usyk in ‘destroy mode’ rematch

Laura Woods apologised for Tyson Fury’s language during his live interview on Saturday night.

The TNT Sports presenter was hosting coverage of Nick Ball vs Ronny Rios in Liverpool, which Fury attended to watch his young cousin Walter Fury win on the undercard.

Fury’s explicit language prompted Woods to apologiseTNT Sports

Prior to Walter’s bout, Tyson went live on air.

“I’ve always been a bad man my whole life,” he said in reference to the Oleksandr Usyk rematch on December 21, “And I’m still one today at nearly 40 years old.

“Few years off 40, but still, I like to say that, it sounds more.

“However, I’m going to go in there with destroy mode.

“Last time I went to box him and I was being cautious. I was boxing the head right off him, let’s talk facts.

“Anyone can get caught as we’ve seen in a lot of these heavyweight fights.

“But this time I’m not going for a points decision. I’m going to knock a motherf***er out. I’m not even sure if you can say that on TNT.”

At this point Woods intervened: “It might be past the watershed, but I probably do have to apologise for a couple of people watching if you’re offended by that.

“It is Tyson Fury though, so you might get a bit of that anyway.”

Fury then concluded: “I’ll apologise for my behaviour. If you don’t like it, change the channel.”

Fury will rematch Usyk on December 21 after losing their first fight by split decisionGetty

Earlier in the interview, Fury insisted he will be in much better shape for the second fight with Usyk, due to the fact he will be free to prepare without having to protect the cut he suffered which postponed their first clash.

“I’m ready to rock and roll,” he insisted.

“Listen, I don’t need a 12-week camp. I’ve been boxing all my life. I’m ready to go tonight, tomorrow, next weekend, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday. It doesn’t really matter.

“I can come in the ring at 30 stone and do 15 rounds. I’m a natural at it. Do you know what I mean?

“All I need is five or six weeks sparring – good sparring this time where I’ve not got a cut that’s going to open up.

“We were worried about the cut so much in camp because there was a massive payday on this cut. And the cut wasn’t even a factor in the fight. So now, cushty, can’t wait.

“It was only three months, 12 weeks before [the fight] I had a 16-inch cut across my left eye and that had to heal.

“It took maybe seven or eight weeks for the cut to heal up. And then another six, seven weeks training. But it’s always a risk of it opening up and then you lose your big dough.”