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Tyson Fury
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Fury was born in Wythenshawe, England to an Irish Traveller
family who have a long history of being boxers and bare
knuckle fighters. Both of Fury's parents came came from
fighting families in Ireland. His grandmother on his mother's
side came from County Tipperary and his father 'Gypsy'
John Fury, from County Galway, was also a boxer with a
professional boxing record of 8 wins, 4 losses (2 KOs)
and 1 draw, was a British heavyweight in the 1990s and
fought Henry Akinwande, among others. Other relatives
of Fury's who were in the sport of boxing include Peter
Fury, Hugh Fury and Phill Fury. The family's heavyweight
fighting lineage goes back another generation with Tyson
Fury's grandfather Tiger Gorman, one of nine children,
who came over from Ireland and who had 60 heavyweight
bouts as a journeyman in the 1940s and 1950s.
Fury was named after his father's idol and
former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. When John Fury told
doctors what his son's name was going to be they just looked
and smiled at him not thinking that Fury would live long
enough nor be big enough to fulfill his "big"
name. Fury was born seven weeks premature and was just the
size of his father 'Gypsy' John Fury's hand. Weighing only
one pound (1lb) he nearly died three times. Fury's family
were told he would not live very long, but despite passing
in and out of consciousness several times in his first few
harrowing days of life but Fury pulled through.
Fury lived for most of his childhood in Wilmslow,
Cheshire.
As an amateur, Fury represented both Ireland
and England. Fury represented Ireland three times at international
level. He initially fought out of the Holy Family Boxing
Club in Belfast, Northern Ireland and later switched to
the Smithboro Club in County Monaghan in the Republic of
Ireland. In a double international duel against an experienced
Polish team in 2007, the Irish team lost 12-6 overall; Fury,
however, was victorious in both his fights in Rzeszow and
Bialystok. In another Irish match against the USA, Fury
won his bout by knock-out.
He was forced to withdraw from the Irish national
championships after officials from the Holy Trinity BC in
Belfast, the club of the then Irish amateur heavyweight
champion, submitted a protest with regards his eligibility.
He won a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships
in 2006.
In England, he participated in the senior
national championships in 2006 but was beaten by David Price
22-8 despite knocking Price down.
In May 2007, he won the EU Junior Championship
and later lost to Maxim Babanin in the final of the European
Junior Championships. As a junior, he was ranked number
three in the World behind the Russians Maxim Babanin and
Andrey Volkov, but lost out to David Price for a place at
the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Price was chosen for the 2008 Olympic team
ahead of Fury due to Olypmic rules restricting each country
to one boxer per weight division. Fury also unsuccessfully
tried to qualify through Welsh and Irish ancestry, and attributed
his failure to qualify for the Olympics as his reason for
turning professional, instead of waiting for a chance that
might not come in 2012.
In the absence of Price (who won Olympic Bronze
in Beijing) he became national champion (ABA) in 2008.
Fury's amateur boxing record stood at 34 fights,
30 wins, 26 wins by KO, with four losses.
Fury turned professional with promoter Mick
Hennessy in December 2008 and represents Great Britain and
Ireland . His debut came at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham
on the undercard of the Carl Froch and Jean Pascal fight
for the WBC super middleweight title. In this fight Fury
defeated Hungary's Bela Gyongyosi with a first round knock-out.
His second fight was in January 2009, when
Fury fought Germany's Marcel Zeller, a man with a record
of 21 (20 KO) -3 losses. Fury won the fight by TKO after
it was stopped in the third round. On 28 February 2009,
Fury beat Russian Daniel Peret by retirement in the second
round due to a large cut on Peret's eye in Norwich on the
undercard of Jon Thaxton first defence of his European Lightweight
title. Tyson beat Lee Swaby by retirement on 14 March 2009,
at the Aston Events Centre in Birmingham on the undercard
of 'Battle of Brum' where Wayne Elcock defended his British
middleweight title against Matthew Macklin. On 11 April
2009, Fury beat Matthew Ellis at the York Hall by knock-out
48 seconds into the first round.
On 23 May 2009, Fury had his first eight round
fight, he beat Scott Belshaw by second round TKO. Belshaw
was down twice in the first round both times by body shots,
in the second another body shot was landed by Fury which
led referee Richard Davies to call a halt to the contest
with 52 seconds of the second round gone.
Fury's next fight was due to take place on
12 June, however he suffered a back injury in training and
the bout was cancelled. Fury returned to the ring on 18
July 2009, beating Aleksandrs Selezens in the 48th second
of the 3rd round, despite the fight almost being cancelled
due to Fury's continuing back injury.
The BBBofC decided that Fury would fight John
McDermott for the English title before the end of November,
with purse bids to be received before 8 July. The fight
was confirmed for 11 September at the Brentwood International
Centre.
Fury made an announcement that he wanted the
win the British and Irish titles before the end of 2009
commenting that "I’d love to start out with the
Irish and English titles and then move on to British, Commonwealth
and European titles before going on to the world scene".
Fury felt that his fight against Belfast's
Scott Belshaw should have earned him an Irish title but
outlined that "I thought it was worthy of it but you
need to have been in a scheduled 8 rounder to fight for
the Irish belt and the Belshaw fight was my first."
A number of potential opponents have been linked with a
potential Irish fight, including Declan Timlin and Coleman
Barrett. Fury's uncle and trainer, Hughie Fury, claimed
"When Tyson was an amateur he was a member of the Smithboro
club in County Monaghan but none of the Irish Super heavyweights
wanted to know about him and it will be the same in the
pro's. He’d fight Timlin and Barrett in the same night,
they’d be no match for him". Keith Walker, acting
as the manager for Barrett responded "Colman will fight
Tyson today and every other day. We don’t perceive
Tyson Fury has any threat whatsoever".
Tyson said of the pair, "the challenge
is out there for them so if they want it then we can get
it on for the Irish title as soon as possible. I’ll
take on any Irish heavyweight out there, all I want is the
opportunity to fight for the Irish title."
On 11 September, Fury controversially beat
John McDermott with a disputed points decision. Both boxers
stated they would like a rematch.
