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Tyson Fury
 

BORN August 12 1988; Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom (resides in Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom
HEIGHT 6-9
WEIGHT 245 1/2 - 276 lbs

Fury is a big, strong man who is very active and bouncy in his style; He utilizes feints and jabs along with looping lefts and rights; His best punch, however, is a hard right thrown when moving in on his opponent, with his weight and momentum behind it; During his career, he has won the WBA Super Heavyweight Championship of the World, IBF Heavyweight Championship of the World, IBO Heavyweight Championship of the World, WBO Heavyweight Championship of the World, WBO International Heavyweight Championship, BBBC Heavyweight Championship of Britain, EBU Heavyweight Championship of Europe, BBBC Heavyweight Championship of England, WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Championship, Heavyweight Championship of Ireland and the British Empire and British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championships

Tyson has defeated such men as Wladimir Klitschko, Steve Cunningham, Dereck Chisora (two times), Kevin Johnson, Christian Hammer, John McDermott (two times), Neven Pajkic and Vinny Maddalone

2008
Dec  6 Bela Gyongyosi               Nottingham, England              TK  1

2009
Jan 17 Marcel Zeller                Wigan, England                   TK  3
Feb 28 Daniil Peretyatko            Norwich, England                 TK  2
Mar 14 Lee Swaby                    Birmingham, England              TK  4
Apr 11 Mathew Ellis                 London, England                  KO  1
May 23 Scott Belshaw                Watford, England                 TK  2
Jul 18 Aleksandrs Selezens          London, England                  TK  3
Sep 11 John McDermott               Brentwood, England                W 10
          -BBBC Heavyweight Championship of England
Sep 26 Tomas Mrazek                 Dublin, Ireland                   W  6

2010
Mar  5 Hans-Joerg Blasko            Huddersfield, UK                 TK  1
Jun 25 John McDermott               Brentwood, England               TK  9
          -BBBC Heavyweight Championship of England
Sep 10 Rich Power                   London, England                   W  8
Dec 18 Zack Page                    Quebec City, Quebec, Canada       W  8

2011
Feb 19 Marcelo Luiz Nascimento      London, England                  KO  5
Jul 23 Dereck Chisora               London, England                   W 12
          -BBBC Heavyweight Championship of England;
           British Empire and British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship
Sep 17 Nicolai Firtha               Belfast, Ireland                 TK  5
Nov 12 Neven Pajkic                 Manchester, England              TK  3
         -British Empire and British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship

2012
Apr 14 Martin Rogan                 Belfast, Ireland                 TK  5
          -Heavyweight Championship of Ireland
Jul  7 Vinny Maddalone              Clevedon, England                TK  5
          -WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight Championship
Dec  1 Kevin Johnson                Belfast, Ireland                  W 12

2013
Apr 20 Steve Cunningham             New York, NY                     KO  7

2014
Feb 15 Joey Abell                   London, England                  TK  4
Nov 29 Dereck Chisora               London, England                  TK 10
          -BBBC Heavyweight Championship of Britain;
           EBU Heavyweight Championship of Europe;
           WBO International Heavyweight Championship

2015
Feb 28 Christian Hammer             London, England                  TK  8
          -WBO International Heavyweight Championship
Nov 28 Wladimir Klitschko           Dusseldorf, Germany               W 12
          -IBF Heavyweight Championship of the World;
           IBO Heavyweight Championship of the World;
           WBO Heavyweight Championship of the World;
           WBA Super Heavyweight Championship of the World

2018
Jun  9 Sefer Seferi                 Manchester, England              TK  4
Aug 18 Francesco Pianeta            Belfast, Ireland                  W 10
Dec  1 Deontay Wilder               Los Angeles, Ca                   D 12
          -WBC Heavyweight Championship of the World

2019
Jun 15 Tom Schwarz                  Las Vegas, Nv                    TK  2
Sep 14 Otto Wallin                  Las Vegas, Nv                     W 12

2020
Feb 22 Deontay Wilder               Las Vegas, Nv                    TK  7
          -WBC Heavyweight Championship of the World

Review courtesy of Tracy Callis, Historian, International Boxing Research Organization
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