Tyson Fury is an English boxer who was born in 1988 in Manchester, England. He has a height and weight that intimidates his opponents. He measures 2.06 and weighs more than 130 kilos.along with his boxing skills, means that for many he is considered the Heavyweight king.
He comes from a family with a lot of relationship with the most relevant contact sport in history. His father and several of his cousins have been boxing professionals at different weights. Despite being born in Manchester, his parents are Irish. It was his father who gave him the Tyson name after Mike Tyson,whom he always admired and was one of the fashionable fighters at the time.
The Gypsy King
It was the same one who called himself that a few years ago. After beating Wladimir Klitschko declared: “I always knew I would become the Gypsy King and that’s the ultimate nickname.” Fury is very proud of his nickname: “I always aspired to be the best, I always wanted to be the world heavyweight champion. “There is a lot of honor and respect that comes with my inherited title because there are gypsies in every country in the world.”
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He is a big fan of Bartley Gorman, a renowned fighter from the ’70s and ’80s who specialized in bare-knuckle fighting. He was known as the ‘King of the Gypsies’. A condition that Fury now boasts about, who does not try to hide his origins, quite the opposite. He is proud of his ancestors and of belonging to a family of ‘irish travellers’Or what is the same, Irish gypsies.
These are basically families that follow a style of nomadic life in motorhomes and they dedicate themselves to going from one fair to another. Among this ethnic group there is a lot of boxing tradition, starting with their father John. She was his trainer until he was imprisoned after a fight with another Irish gypsy in which his opponent lost an eye.
On May 18 he will seek to unify the world heavyweight titles in his fight against Usyk. It will be difficult to beat the Ukrainian who has a streak of 21 consecutive victories.
