Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography

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It didn’t take long for him to soar towards international amateur level, becoming EU Junior Champion in May 2007 and ABA national champion in 2008, before turning pro later that year at the age of 20. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA Tyson Fury in his rematch with US boxer Deontay Wilder for the WBC world heavyweight championship in Las Vegas, February 2020. Also, he won the match against the long-reigning world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko in Germany.

cannot travel to America when his son fights after being denied a visa following an 11-year sentence for gouging another man's eye out during a fight at a car auction. He had a winning record of 24-0 when he faced the world champion Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015 and won many heavyweight titles, including the WBF and IBF heavyweight championships. At the positive end of that list was a self-belief instilled by Fury’s having been around Klitschko before, while learning at the feet of Steward himself.

While this was a watershed it wasn’t until a Halloween party Fury attended, dressed as a skeleton, that he finally hit bottom, looking around at the crowd of young people and thinking “ you’ve chucked it all away. Wilder not only survived the third round but turned the fight on its head in the next session with his famed right hand decking Fury twice and this time it was the Briton holding on to preserve his unbeaten record.

In the meantime, he’ll be fighting British heavyweight Derek Chisora (for the third time) on Saturday 3 December. He left school at the age of 11 and began his training to become a boxer, under his father and later, his uncles. million people around the globe watched Fury fight Wilder in the biggest fight of the boxing calendar.Tyson Fury Behind The Mask autobiography best seller praised by Frank Warren, predicts unified title win". He was listed as one the top 3 most talented junior boxers in the globe together with the “ABA super-heavyweight” title in the year 2008. He celebrates the importance of fitness and his efforts to get in shape, but rejects sports science, heart-rate monitors and data assessment.