Tyson Luke Fury, aka The Gypsy King has had a rollercoaster of a journey towards his status as a global star and number one heavyweight boxer on the planet.

Life started in a hurry, with Tyson being born three-months prematurely, on 12^th August 1988, weighing a mere 1lb in weight. A fighter from his first breath, Tyson comes from an Irish traveller family and grew up in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester, England. It quickly became apparent that, much the same as his father, John, and the generations that came before him, he had an aptitude for boxing.

From a long bloodline of fighters, Tyson was trained and moulded from an early age into the boxer you see today. At ten, he began boxing more formally, with his father never far away from his side. 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….