A look back at the colourful and controversial moments involving high-profile members of the region's Fury clan
Tyson Fury took on Oleksandr Usyk in a bid to become the 21st century's undisputed heavyweight champion of the world last night.
"Believe me there is good stuff that comes out of them," the father-of-six said. "I've got world champion nuts in these trousers - breed some kings, I do. There are only champions coming out of these nuts - it's been proven hasn't it? All my sons can fight - not just Tyson." Fury grabbed Mr Sykes by his shoulder-length hair and gripped him in a headlock. "It was like he was trying to pull his finger into my brains through my socket," Mr Sykes said. "I was screaming, 'Please stop, you're hurting me.'
His tearful pleas fell on his deaf ears. Sending him down for 11 years Judge Michael Henshell said Fury had been 'cold-blooded' in inflicting the 'catastrophic injury'. "At the bottom end of the bed stands the figure of a man, and though I can't see his face in much detail, I know it is the shape of Jesus. Then with a voice as clear as a bell, the figure says: "Everything will be OK."
Involved in wholesale drug importation from the continent, Fury was also a feared enforcer who would travel around Europe collecting huge debts on behalf of his clients. Barred from New Zealand Peter Fury's brushes with the law resulted in him initially being declined entry to New Zealand in 2017. Fury was due to be in the corner for his son Hughie's world heavyweight title scrap with Joshua Parker.
"I didn’t know who to turn to or where to go, I didn't know anyone with any education on the matter. Who was I going to tell? Who wasn’t going to laugh at me and think I was a pathetic, weak person? That was the stigma in my mind. He later apologised, saying: "I would like to put on record that I am not homophobic. I have homosexual friends and I do not judge them because of their sexuality. My comments that you may have read are from the holy scriptures, and this is what I live from."
Denied entry to US In June 2023 Tommy Fury's fight with Jake Paul was cancelled for a second time after the Brit was refused entry into the United States. The Love Island star revealed that he had been denied entry after being stopped at Heathrow Airport.
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