TYSON FURY shared amazing throwback pictures of himself with a full head of hair during his amateur days alongside wife Paris and dad John.
The unbeaten heavyweight, now the WBC world champion, posted the vintage throwback snaps online documenting his early rise in the unpaid ranks.
Tyson Fury as an amateur boxer in a throwback snap
A young Fury with wife Paris, who he married in 2008
The Gypsy King with dad John, pictured in the middle,
Fury – who grew up around boxing through his bloodline of hardened bare-knuckle gypsy fighters – first walked into the Jimmy Egan boxing club when he was 14.
Trainer Steve, the son of owner Jimmy, revealed how the future heavyweight king joined the gym as a 6ft 4in 14-year-old weighing 14st and was destined to be champion.
He told talkSPORT: “From the first minute Tyson walked in the gym, I knew. I looked at him on a bag and said, ‘there’s the future heavyweight champion of the world!’
“My dad said, ‘he’s just walked through the bleedin’ doors!’ I said, ‘dad, there’s something about that kid!’ He was six foot four and 14 stone at 14 years of age. I thought he was 17 or 18!”
Fury left the amateur ranks in 2008 with a 31–4 record and an elite ABA title but failure to be given the chance to get on the Beijing Olympic team forced him to turn professional.
During that time Fury married partner Paris, who he had met as a 17-year-old, and shared an old picture of the two.
Fury also revealed a photo with his dad John, also with his hair intact, who remains a huge part of the Gypsy King’s team to this day.
Due to a prior jail sentence John is unable to travel with his son to fights in America, but he was there the night Fury changed the heavyweight landscape by dethroning Wladimir Klitschko, who was 11-years unbeaten.
Gypsy John watched from home as his son became world champion for a second time by beating Deontay Wilder in February, and ITV cameras documented the emotional phone call he shared with his son in the changing rooms after the win.
Fury is set to face Wilder in a trilogy clash in October, after the coronavirus pandemic KO’d the initial July date.
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
