“They are really cute little guys; we have two of them,” the heavyweight said of the family corgis. “They’re really funny and give us lots of joy in life — how they play with each other, how they struggle in life a little bit because of their short legs and big body.
“I enjoy nature, in general. That’s somewhere I go to relax, to calm myself because when you go to the gym every day, there is always someone there that wants to kick your a**. Preparing for a fight, training is a lot of stress, it’s always on your mind.
“I grew up on a farm — I actually own a small one — so I think that’s in my nature: to go there, spend time there,” added the 38-year-old. “The mountains aren’t too far away from where I live, so me and my wife go there. Last year we got a camper van — a small one, but fits us and the two small dogs — so every time we have time, we are trying to spend time somewhere and the mountains are the obvious choice, in the winter especially.”
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This week, he’s traded winter in his native Poland for the desert climes of Las Vegas, which was starting to feel like a second home to the heavyweight mainstay until the COVID-19 pandemic made getting to the destination training outpost impossible.
“I remember the first time I came to Vegas, that was something I really liked about this place: it’s completely different than my country, so I enjoyed spending time there,” said Tybura, whose hometown of Uniejów had a population south of 3,000 residents in 2020. “The weather was nice. It was this place I knew from the movies, so that was a big trip for me the first time I came to Vegas.