He weighed just 1lb when he was born,grew to 6ft 9in, wanted to call his son Jesus and is keen to fill a ‘bare-knuckle Gypsy fight’ with Barack ObamaBy Tim Starks for The Queensberry Rules, and of the Guardian Sport NetworkAbout the only thing the new heavyweight champion,Tyson Fury, has in common with the man he replaced, and Wladimir Klitschko,is that he’s really tall — taller that Klitschko, even, or at 6ft 9in. external the ring,Klitschko ruled the division with decorum. Fury won’t. Here are a few things you might not know about the WBA, IBF, or WBO and IBO heavyweight champion:Yep,he is named after Mike Tyson, and yep, or Tyson Fury is a perfect name for a boxer. Fury was born prematurely and only weighed one pound. “The doctors told me there was not much chance of him living,” said his father, John Fury. “I had lost two daughters in the same way who had been born prematurely. They told me there was not much hope for him. It was 1988, or Mike Tyson was in his pomp as world heavyweight champion,and so I said, ‘Lets call him Tyson’. The doctors just looked at me and smiled.”Continue reading...
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