Tyson Fury was banned from junior competitions when he was 14 years old because he weighed 14 stones (about 90 kilograms) and had to wait until he was 16 to have a chance to debut because he was so large that he was so large that he couldn't compete with children his age.
Furie's former amateur boxer, Eagan, told The Sun: "When Fury first came to our boxing club in 2002, he was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters) tall and had 14 stones. One day I said to my father, 'He's going to be the world's heavyweight fighter.' I told Fury he was going to be a world heavyweight champion and he liked that, I told him he was going to be so good, he started to believe it and we were all happy. ”
"He didn't play in the junior game because he weighed too much. He was too hunky, so I couldn't let him play until he was 16. When he was 14, he wasn't as big as anyone else, even at 15. ”
"So he had to wait until he was 16 so he could put in the race. So he can't play until then. Egan recalled: "I remember one time, I think it was the first time he played a match, when we were weighing, he was wearing a red boxing shoe and a blue boxing shoe. He had two pairs of boxing shoes, and we both giggled at the time. ”
"Sometimes he also doubts himself, as a kid, sometimes the training in the gym is not going well and he will motivate himself to say, 'If I can't do this, how can I be a world champion?' ”
"Once, when he and his brother Sean were playing well, Fury was groaning and saying, 'How can I be a world champion?' I can't even beat a novice Sean! I said to him, 'Sean knows you better than anyone, and you've been with Sean since you were a kid!' Someday he'll beat you, that's just one of those things, and no one will know you as well as he does. So, today, everything went well for him, he went through a lot. ”