The 33-year-old "Gypsy King" WBC heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury published his autobiography "Behind the Mask" in 2019, giving boxing fans some interesting insight into his life as a child. Fury was born two months prematurely and weighed only 1 pound, but his father, John Fury, had high hopes for his son, naming him Tyson after boxing legend Mike Tyson as a tribute to former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
Indeed, he was very talented when Heli was a teenager, and he actually broke the ribs of his father John, who was a professional boxer. Fury writes: "When I was 14, my dad did have a personal view of my talent up close. Dad was still in good shape, exercising in our cabin and we started talking about his career. I cheekily told him that I had been watching his videos and that he wasn't that good! ”
"So my father said, 'Okay, let's put on a fist and try it and see if you can handle yourself.'" He thought he was going to hit me, but I hit him with my left hook at the beginning. bang! His ribs were broken, but he immediately fought back. I ended up hitting him and we both agreed it was better for him to sit down and rest because I was better than him. ”
"In fourteen games he played as a professional boxer, he admitted to me that he had never been hurt like this before. I think we all knew at the time that I was a little different and that making a career for myself in professional boxing wouldn't be a problem for me, at least in the ring. ”
Tall at 6 feet 3 inches, John played 14 times as a professional boxer in the 1980s and 1990s, setting a record for an 8-4-1 heavyweight boxer.
John, who later directed Tyson and his brother Tommy Fury in boxing, told TalkSPORT reporters: "He was about 6'5" when he was 14 years old and he was a big fat guy because he loved to eat burgers. A friend of mine said at the time that although he had a lot of fat on him, he had never seen someone as strong as he was, and he could become a boxer. ”