Tyson Fury
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1988 (35 years old)
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Wythenshawe, Manchester, EnglandPosition
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Tyson Luke Fury (born 12 August 1988) is a professional boxer who fights at heavyweight. In November 2015, he defeated Wladimir Klitschko to become WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring unified heavyweight champion.
Having initially been denied the opportunity to fight for Ireland at the Olympic Games, he was permitted to represent both Great Britain and Ireland after tracing his family lineage to relatives in Belfast. Fury has represented both England and Ireland as an amateur, winning the ABA championship in 2008 before turning professional later that year. Currently undefeated, he is a two-time former British and English champion, a former European, Commonwealth and Irish heavyweight champion, as well as a former WBO Inter-Continental and WBO International heavyweight champion.
Born and raised in Manchester, England, Fury was born into a family of Irish Traveller heritage. His paternal grandfather was from Tuam, County Galway, which is also the birthplace of his father John Fury. His maternal grandmother is from County Tipperary and his mother was born in Belfast. His family has a long history in boxing; his father competed in the 1980s as "Gypsy" John Fury, initially as a bareknuckle fighter and unlicensed boxer, and then as a professional boxer. He is a cousin of Irish WBO Middleweight World Champion Andy Lee and heavyweight Hughie Fury. Hughie's father, Peter Fury, is also Tyson's trainer. He is also a distant relative of "self-styled King of the Gypsies" Bartley Gorman. His father named him "Tyson" after then-world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. He is a supporter of Premier League football club Manchester United.
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