What a fight is taking place this Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Tyson Luke Furyknown as ‘The Gypsy King’ and heavyweight champion of the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO, with his 122 kilos and his two meters in height, he is measured against the former UFC legend, the Cameroonian Francis NgannouMMA champion in the equivalent category, weighing 117 kilos with his 1.93 m.
The Predator, MMA champion, faces the current world heavyweight boxing champion and, although he comes from martial arts, he has trained thoroughly with Mike Tyson himself – his great idol – who will once again get into a ring at the age of 57 as the trainer of the African beast. A fight with all the incentives and that has raised enormous expectations.
The Gypsy King
Fury, who has granted an interview to Daily Mail Before the fight, he brought out all his art when he was asked about his body – his lorzas are famous: “It’s good to have a good body. I would love to have a good body, but I don’t think I can have it. I’ve been training for 20 years and I still don’t have a great body. I’ve been focused, living like a monk, for the last 12 weeks and I still don’t have a great body. I don’t mind being fat. I accept being fat because my love handles make me different from the rest and make history. There has never been anyone like me and there never will be. I am fat, I have been fat as a baby and I will die fat. All of us are fat. Hughie is fat, Shane is fat, my dad and mom are fat. I hope she doesn’t see this, but we’re a family of fat people. My brother Hughie runs, trains, boxes and I do the same, I go out two or three times a day, but I have always been fat. My love handles are a registered trademark.”
Fury, 35 years old and with a balance of 33-0 and zero combat, is a peculiar guy. He was born prematurely and was close to dying. His childhood was marked by boxing. Fury comes from a nomadic gypsy family and of Irish origin, in Manchester. He is the nephew of the greatest boxer bareknuckle (without gloves) of the modern era, Bartley Gorman, the Gypsy King, a nickname he now uses.
He is the great-grandson of Uriah Burton, legendary bare-knuckle boxing champion of Ireland and England. He has brothers and cousins who are boxers. His father (who named him after Mike Tyson) was also a boxer. bareknuckle before moving on to professional boxing and doing 13 fights, with a record of 8 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw.
Fury makes it clear that the first thing he learned in life is to fight: “Boxing is a key element in our culture. First of all, you learn to fight. Because when we have a dispute, we don’t go to the police, we don’t involve the law, we settle it in our own way: we take off our shirts and we solve it head-to-head.”
At the age of 10, Fury began boxing trained by his father, John. He led his career until 2011, when he was jailed for a fight with another ‘Irish Traveller’, who lost an eye. Besides, At 11 years old, Tyson Fury realized that he did not want to study and dropped out of school to work paving roads with his father and brothers. From there she had a meteoric career where she won absolutely everything. Until 2015. After winning the world title from the Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko, who had been undefeated for 9 years, she had to hand it over as she could not avenge her problems with alcohol and cocaine.
He sank into depression and stopped training. He dedicated himself to drinking beer at a rate of five liters a day, eating uncastrated wild boar and watching Manchester United games. And every night he went out to continue drinking, take cocaine and sleep with prostitutes.
He gained 80 kilos of pure fat. He didn’t go to the gym or respond to calls from his team. He entered and left psychological and psychiatric treatments. Around that time he told a UK tabloid: “I don’t train anymore. I’m depressed and fed up with life. I just hope someone kills me before I do it myself.”
Even He almost committed suicide by crashing his Ferrari at full speed., but he just heard a voice in his head telling him not to do it. And he came back. For his five children, three girls and two boys – at that time, since today she is expecting her seventh child – or for his wife, Paris – her great support has been with her since she was 16 years old and with gypsy blood like him. Because of whatever he put into his battered head, he was reborn.
He was away from boxing for two and a half years, but when he returned in 2018 he did it in a big way. He destroyed his archenemy in an anthological trilogy Deontay Wilder -a null fight, the only non-victory of his career, and two wins to knock down the American giant- and in his last two he won Dillian White y Derek Chisora.
The predator
The story of overcoming Francis Ngannou It is the one that forged his tremendous toughness in the cage. His path to glory was full of thorns. He arrived in Spain, where he entered as an illegal immigrant, a situation that took him to the limit and often put his life at risk. He crossed Nigeria and Algeria. He slept in forests, ate what he found and kept money in plastic bags that he swallowed so they wouldn’t be stolen. Then he had to defecate them and look for it among his own excrement.
He crossed the strait in an inflatable boat and will never forget the wires of the Melilla fence: “The barbed wire of Melilla, I will never forget it. I have scars everywhere: on my ribs, on my legs, on my feet. They told us that there were no oars and that we had to row with our hands. I thought to myself: ‘People die at sea when they have oars, and this guy wants me to row with my hands. I believed it, I even thought, ‘We will go down in history, we will be the first to reach Spain rowing with our hands,’ he narrated.
His childhood was marked by harshness and a violent father. while working at 10 years old in a sand mine to be able to help with money at home, Ngannou dreamed of being a wrestler. Although his reality was different. He lived in a poor town where To get to school I had to walk several kilometers.
“When I started school most of the time I didn’t have a pen to take notes or a notebook to write. Sometimes I went without shoes; “My uniform was all torn and it frustrated me to look around and see other kids looking good,” the Cameroonian revealed.
He had nowhere to train, but the work he did in the mines strengthened his body. At 22 years old, his sporting goals were still in his head, and that is why heHe sent a motorcycle he had to buy boxing equipment and moved to a city where he could train.
“My father was a violent man. He often beat us, my mother, my brothers and me. When I joked with my friends, people said about me: ‘He is violent like his father.’ I quickly realized one thing: I didn’t want to become like him,” he said. “My father, ‘that guy’ who never did anything for us, at the end of the day was a role model for me. I understood through him what I didn’t want to be. “It’s crazy how life works.”
At the age of 25 he managed to leave his native Cameroon and He left secretly without knowing where he was going, despite the fact that he was clear about going to North Africa. Sleeping on the street, swallowing money, being an illegal immigrant and going to prison were expected – he spent two months in jail in Spain -, but now Ngannou got to live his childhood dream. And after living as a homeless person on the streets of Paris, He began training for free at a gym called MMA Factory. Ngannou made his official debut in the UFC two years later, in 2015 and continued to grow until he became a legend. He earned the nickname Predator for brutalities such as the following:
However, he always wanted to become a boxer, since his idol was Mike Tyson. Life has given good old Ngannou a gift at 37 years old. He will make his official debut as a boxer with his idol becoming his own trainer and supporting him in his corner of the ring.
This Saturday Saudi Arabia will paralyze boxing lovers. The fight of the year, the fight of the baddest, is here. Two beasts facing each other. And there can only be one left.
2023-10-27 09:50:09
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