Tyson Fury has had a well-publicised battle with his demons over the past few years, but he is ready to return to the ring on Saturday night in Manchester.

The Gypsy King will step between the ropes for his first fight since ending Wladimir Klitschko's heavyweight domination in November 2015, where he will take on 41-year-old Swiss scrapper Sefer Seferi, who has this week been mocked for looking slow in his public workout.

Fury is in a confident mood ahead of his comeback, one which could be argued is just a schooling for the Brit before he sets his sights on bigger targets later in the year and in 2019.

“You’re going to see the best Tyson Fury there’s ever been," said the former heavyweight champion of the world.

"I know a lot of people talk a good game when they’ve been (inactive for a long period), they always say they’ve done everything correctly.

“But when I say I’ve never, ever, ever been better or stronger or fitter or faster, I mean it. I’ve sparred hundreds and hundreds of rounds in the gym, i’m doing very, very well.”

Despite being coached for the majority of his career by his uncle Peter, it would be foolish to forget Fury's breeding ground, which is less than 10 miles from the venue for his return - the Manchester Arena.

Fury started off at Jimmy Egan's boxing gym as a 14-year-old, and it is Steve Egan who is credited with turning a 6-foot-plus novice into a British amateur champion, winning various titles and medals across the world before turning professional in 2007.

"I wouldn't say he was talented, just a gangly lad," stated Egan.

"He was just a big lad, with fast hands but he wasn't like most learners who come in.

'He was trying the odd body shot and I thought that's good for a big lad. And you just look in front and see what you've done with good lads and think if I can put that in him, how good is he going to be."

Egan made a very bold prediction on that very first day Fury entered his gym for a training session though, which ended up becoming a reality when he produced a masterclass in Germany to take every heavyweight belt off Klitschko.

"I thought he's always going to be a heavyweight," said Egan. "Look at the size of him. So the first day I saw him I said to him: "Heavyweight champion of the world".

Egan gave up his job to train Fury full-time, seeing the potential right before him, but the two stopped working together in 2009, something that disappointed the coach.

"Maybe he just wanted to go in a different direction," Egan said.

"What can you say? I wanted him to stay with me.

"He doesn't shout it from the rooftops that he trained here, does he? Not a lot of people know. Everyone in the amateur boxing game knows he trained here but in the pros and in the general public, not many people know."

Regardless of his struggles in the previous few years, if Fury comes back with a bang against Seferi, he will put the whole division on notice, and he will inevitably want the belts that he technically never lost back.