Tyson Fury

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Tyson Fury
Heavyweight boxing world champion
boxer
Tyson Fury (2017)

Tyson Fury (2017)

Data
Birth Name Tyson Luke Fury
Fight name The Gypsy King
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality United KingdomUnited Kingdom British Irish
IrelandIreland
birthday August 12, 1988
place of birth Manchester
style Left-hand boom
size 2.06 m
Range 2.16 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 31
Victories 30th
Knockout victories 21st
Defeats 0
draw 1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Tyson Luke Fury (born August 12, 1988 in Manchester , England ) is a British boxer and current world heavyweight champion of the WBC and former world champion according to the version of the WBA , IBF , WBO and IBO . After 31 fights he is still unbeaten as a professional boxer.

Life

Born in the Wythenshawe district in the north-west of Manchester , Fury grew up in a family of Irish travelers . His paternal grandfather was from Tuam , County Galway . This was also the birthplace of his father, John Fury. The Galway Furys clan are of Gaelic descent. The name is derived from Ó Fiodhabhra and originally means bushy eyebrows .

His maternal grandmother is from County Tipperary and his mother was born in Belfast , Northern Ireland . Fury's family has a long history in boxing. His father John fought in the 1980s under the name "Gypsy" John Fury ; first as a bare knuckle fighter, later as a professional boxer. Tyson Fury is a cousin of former WBO world middleweight champion Andy Lee , British light heavyweight champion Hosea Burton and heavyweight boxer Hughie Fury .

Fury is also a distant relative of the self-proclaimed King of the Gypsies , Bartley Gorman, and likes to refer to himself as the Gypsy King . Other nicknames he has given himself are The Furious One and Tyson "2 fast" Fury . His father named him after Mike Tyson, who was then world heavyweight champion .

Fury grew up in Wilmslow, Cheshire . He is Catholic and has been married to Paris Fury since 2008; The marriage resulted in a daughter (* 2009) and two sons (* 2011, 2016).

Amateur career

As an amateur, Fury competed for both Ireland and England . He represented Ireland a total of three times at international level. He first fought for the Holy Family Boxing Club in the Northern Irish capital Belfast and later moved to Smithborough in County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.

In 2006, Fury fought in Moroccan Agadir at the Junior World Championships of the AIBA the bronze medal when he Ilham Khatamov and Istvan Bernat defeated and in the semifinals Sardor Abdullayev was beaten on points.

In the international competition in Poland in 2007, Ireland lost 6:12 to the experienced Polish team. However, Fury emerged victorious in both of his fights, in Rzeszów and Białystok . In the same year Fury represented England at the Junior European Championships in Sombor, Serbia and came second after a final defeat against the Russian Maxim Babanin . He had previously defeated Andrija Keković (Serbia) and Jasmin Hasić ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

Fury tried to qualify for Ireland at the Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but unsuccessfully. He had previously tried to qualify for the English team but had to admit defeat to David Price . Fury later stated that his unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the Olympics were a reason for his decision to move into professional life. He doesn't want to wait for the 2012 Games in London.

In the same year he won the ABA Championship (English Championship) in Sheffield , where he defeated Mark Smith, Shane McPhilbin and Damien Campbell each on points.

Professional career

Tyson Fury made his professional debut on December 6, 2008

First years

Fury made his debut as a professional boxer on December 6, 2008. After fighting against rather unknown boxers, the fight for the Commonwealth and British Championship on July 23, 2011 against Dereck Chisora ​​was his first major appearance. He won the fight over twelve rounds by unanimous decision on points.

On November 12, 2011 he faced the also undefeated Neven Pajkić. Fury went down for the first time in his career in the second round, but was able to turn the fight and forced Pajkić to the ground twice in the third round. After Fury hit Pajkić hard again, the referee stopped the fight and declared Fury the winner.

After he had defeated Vinny Maddalone and thereby became Intercontinental Champion of the WBO, he competed against the two famous boxers Steve Cunningham and Kevin Johnson in world title eliminations and defeated them.

The fight against David Haye , scheduled for February 8, 2014 , was canceled because Haye had to undergo surgery on his shoulder. In February 2014 he beat Joey Abell k. o. and in the same year boxed for the second time against Chisora ​​for the European Championship (EBU) , the WBO International Championship and the vacant British Championship. Chisora ​​had no chance and this time even lost prematurely. At the end of February 2015 he boxed against Christian Hammer . Hammer had to go down, never had a chance and gave up in the 8th round.

Klitschko fight and resignation

On November 28, 2015 he won against Wladimir Klitschko, who had been undefeated for over eleven years, after twelve rounds by unanimous decision, and became the new heavyweight world champion of the four associations (WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO) whose belt was held by Klitschko. In December 2015, he was stripped of the IBF title because he did not play against the mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Hlaskov . Fury was named " World Boxer of the Year 2015 " by the renowned Ring Magazine .

In early May 2016, he announced that he would end his career after the rematch against Klitschko. Because of an ankle injury Fury, the fight originally scheduled for July 9, 2016 was postponed. The British media then reported that Fury had already tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in spring 2015 . On August 3, 2016, the British anti-doping agency UKAD announced that Fury had been temporarily suspended on June 24, 2016, the day of the cancellation. He was later banned from UKAD for two years. On September 22, 2016, Fury canceled the fight that had now been planned for October 29 due to health problems. It was later revealed that he had tested positive for cocaine that day by the American Anti-Doping Agency. On October 3, 2016, Fury announced his resignation on Twitter , which he revoked a few hours later. Two days later he said in an interview that he had been diagnosed with manic depression . In mid-October 2016, Fury returned the world championship titles of the WBO, WBA and IBO associations. In July 2017 he again announced his resignation.

comeback

In October 2017, however, he revoked this statement and announced his comeback for 2018.

On June 9, 2018, Fury was back in the ring and defeated Sefer Seferi in Manchester by giving up in the 4th round. Later in August he defeated Francesco Pianeta in Belfast on points. In the fight over 10 rounds Fury dominated, but he did not succeed in the decisive blow. This fight was only scored by the referee , not by three judges as usual , who scored each round 10: 9 for Fury (100: 90).

In 2018, a title union between the WBC world champion Deontay Wilder and the WBA, IBF and WBO world champion Anthony Joshua should take place in order to box out the undisputed world heavyweight champion. However, since the promoters of the boxers could not agree, Fury got the chance to box against Wilder for the World Championship of the association WBC. The fight took place on December 1 of that year at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and ended in a draw. Fury went down on rounds 9 and 12.

On February 22, 2020, he won the rematch against Wilder by technical knockout in the seventh round and became WBC world champion.

List of professional fights

30 wins (21 knockout wins), 0 defeats , 1 draw
year Day place opponent Result for Fury
2008 6th of December United KingdomUnited Kingdom Trent FM Arena , Nottingham, UK HungaryHungary Bela Gyongyosi Victory / TKO 1st round
2009 January 17th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Robin Park Center , Wigan, UK GermanyGermany Marcel Zeller Victory / TKO 3rd round
February 28 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Norwich Showground, Norwich, UK RussiaRussia Daniel Peret Victory / abandonment 2nd round
the 14th of March United KingdomUnited Kingdom Aston Events Center, Birmingham, UK United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lee Swaby Victory / abandonment 4th round
11 April United KingdomUnited Kingdom York Hall, London, UK United KingdomUnited Kingdom Matthew Ellis Victory / KO 1st round
23. May United KingdomUnited Kingdom Colosseum, Watford, UK IrelandIreland Scott Belshaw Victory / TKO 2nd round
July 18th United KingdomUnited Kingdom York Hall, London, UK LatviaLatvia Aleksandrs Selezens Victory / TKO 3rd round
September 11 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brentwood Center, Brentwood, UK United KingdomUnited KingdomJohn McDermott
BBBofC English Heavyweight Championship
Points win / 10 rounds
September 26th IrelandIreland The O2 , Dublin, Ireland Czech RepublicCzech Republic Tomáš Mrázek Points win / 6 rounds
2010 5. March United KingdomUnited Kingdom Huddersfield Sports Center, Huddersfield, UK GermanyGermany Hans-Jörg Blasko Victory / TKO 1st round
25th June United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brentwood Center, Brentwood, UK United KingdomUnited KingdomJohn McDermott
BBBofC English Heavyweight Championship
Victory / TKO 9th round
September 10 United KingdomUnited Kingdom York Hall, London, UK United StatesUnited States Rich power Points win / 8 rounds
December 18th CanadaCanada Colisee Pepsi , Quebec, Canada United StatesUnited States Zack Page Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
2011 19th of February United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wembley Arena , London, UK BrazilBrazil Marcelo Luiz Nascimento Victory / KO 5th round
July 23 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wembley Arena , London, UK United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dereck Chisora
Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship
BBBofC British Heavyweight Championship
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
17th of September United KingdomUnited Kingdom King's Hall, Belfast, UK United StatesUnited States Nicolai Firtha Victory / TKO 5th round
November 12th United KingdomUnited Kingdom EventCity, Manchester, UK CanadaCanadaNeven Pajkić Commonwealth Heavyweight Title Defense
Victory / TKO 3rd round
2012 April 14th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Odyssey Arena , Belfast, UK United KingdomUnited KingdomMartin Rogan
BUI Irish Heavyweight Championship
Victory / TKO 5th round
7th of July United KingdomUnited Kingdom Hand Arena, Clevedon, UK United StatesUnited StatesVinny Maddalone
WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
Victory / TKO 5th round
December 1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Odyssey Arena , Belfast, UK United StatesUnited States Kevin Johnson Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2013 20th of April United StatesUnited States Madison Square Garden , New York, USA United StatesUnited States Steve Cunningham Victory / KO 7th round
2014 February 15th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Copper Box , London, UK United StatesUnited States Joey Abell Victory / TKO 4th round
November 29th United KingdomUnited Kingdom ExCeL Arena , London, UK United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dereck Chisora
WBO International Heavyweight Championship
EBU Heavyweight European Championship
BBBofC British Heavyweight Championship
Victory / abandon 10th round
2015 February 28 United KingdomUnited Kingdom The O2 Arena , Greenwich, UK RomaniaRomania Christian Hammer
WBO International Heavyweight Title Defense
Victory / abandonment 8th round
November 28th GermanyGermany ESPRIT arena , Düsseldorf, Germany UkraineUkraine Wladimir Klitschko
IBF / IBO / WBA / WBO Heavyweight World Championship
Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2018 June 9th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Manchester Arena , Manchester, UK AlbaniaAlbania Sefer Seferi Victory / abandonment 4th round
18th of August United KingdomUnited Kingdom Windsor Park , Belfast, UK GermanyGermany Francesco Pianeta Points win / 10 rounds
December 1 United StatesUnited States Staples Center , Los Angeles, USA United StatesUnited States Deontay Wilder
WBC World Heavyweight Championship
Tie (split decision) / 12 rounds
2019 15th June United StatesUnited States MGM Grand Garden Arena , Las Vegas, USA GermanyGermany Tom Schwarz
WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship
Victory / TKO 2nd round
September 14th United StatesUnited States T-Mobile Arena , Las Vegas, USA SwedenSweden Otto Wallin Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
2020 February 22 United StatesUnited States MGM Grand Garden Arena , Las Vegas, USA United StatesUnited States Deontay Wilder
WBC World Heavyweight Championship
Victory / TKO 7th round
Source: Tyson Fury in the BoxRec database

Controversy and criticism

Public statements

Tyson Fury on the ring of the fight between Saunders and Lemieux in Quebec City (2017)

In 2013, before his first fight at Madison Square Garden , Fury told journalists that he would hang his sister if she behaved promiscuously . That same year he was fined £ 3,000 for calling his boxing colleagues David Price and Tony Bellew "gay lovers". Bellew himself said, after the public discussion about Fury's statements boiled up, that he was not upset about it and did not understand the people who put Fury down over it.

Shortly before winning the WBO heavyweight title in November 2015, Fury spoke out about doping in boxing. He believes it should be legal to take performance enhancing drugs. If doping were legal, everyone could dop and everything was fair. Furthermore, he was of the opinion that if the associations would approve doping, the competition in boxing would be fairer. There are all these people who do drugs, and when you face an opponent who doesn't use drugs, it's unfair.

After fighting Klitschko, Fury said he was cautious about possible scams on the part of the Klitschko team, but without presenting evidence. He wouldn't even drink the water in the locker room for fear it might be drugged. The British Boxing Board of Control then met and called in Fury to comment on his statements.

In May 2016, he also made anti-Semitic statements in an interview . He was also noticed with misogynistic and homophobic statements.

Nomination for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015

After winning the world title against Klitschko, the BBC named Fury 2015 one of the finalists for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award. The nomination itself had already generated controversy in advance after Fury apparently equated homosexuality and pedophilia in an interview .

“There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home. One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia. So who would have thought in the 50s and early 60s that those first two would be legalized. "

“There are only three things that must be accomplished before the devil comes home. One is the legalization of homosexuality, one is abortion and the other is pedophilia. Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that the first two would be legalized? "

- Tyson Fury

A petition on change.org that said Fury's homophobic and sexist attitudes made him an unsuitable candidate for the award drew 138,000 signatures. When asked whether he was homophobic, Fury said no. It is definitely not. He wouldn't be a good Christian if he hated anyone. If Jesus loved the world, then He would too.

In the run-up to the award ceremony, Fury also attracted attention with lewd remarks about the Olympic and heptathlon world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill , another candidate for the SPOTY award. He also said the best place for a woman is in the kitchen or lying on her back. This is his personal belief. ("That's my personal belief.")

Fury reacted to the public debate about his nomination with incomprehension, assured him that he was not homophobic, but added one more time: his critics could "suck my balls", and the signatories of the petition were 50,000 wankers ("50,000 wankers ").

The scandal eventually reached politics. John Nicolson of the Scottish National Party (SNP), a member of the Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, publicly questioned the BBC's nomination of Fury and announced that it would investigate homophobia in sport. On December 9th, the situation for the BBC escalated when the favorite for the award, long jumper Greg Rutherford , threatened to stay away because of the controversy surrounding Fury. Despite his deep dislike for Fury, Rutherford finally agreed to attend the ceremony.

On 9 December, the police confirmed Manchester, they examine the allegation of a hate crime (hate crime) by Fury after it was again noticed in a television broadcast from Victoria Derbyshire by homophobic remarks. The police quickly put the allegations into perspective, however, and let it be known that it was merely a hate incident . Fury will not have to answer in court.

Fury eventually finished fourth in the Sports Personality of the Year poll and apologized for his offensive comments during the event.

"I've said a lot of stuff in the past and none of it is with intentions to hurt anybody […] And if I've said anything in the past that's hurt anybody, I apologize to anyone that's been hurt by it."

“I've said a lot of things in the past and none of them were with the intention of hurting anyone […] and if I've said something in the past that hurt someone, I apologize to everyone who it hurt. "

- Tyson Fury

Success as a professional

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Tyson Fury  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  47. ESPN BWAA votes Oleksandr Usyk 2018 fighter of the year; Jarrett Hurd-Erislandy Lara earns top bout
predecessor title successor
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November 28, 2015 - December 8, 2015
vacant
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November 28, 2015 - October 12, 2016
vacant
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since February 22, 2020
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since February 22, 2020
vacant Heavyweight boxing champion ( linear )
since February 22, 2020