Tyson: "I’ve only had 16 professional bare knuckle boxing fights" Dave Allen: "Only?" laughs Tyson: "Most of them I finished as soon as I landed the first jab" Tyson: "Remember that fight I had in that hay barn that one time? Dave Allen: "Oh yea yea" Tyson Fury: "I fought this guy he was the Mexican bare knuckle champion and they flew him over with some Mexican like cartel people, he had like snake skin pants on and he stripped off he had all these tattoo’s all over him head to toe and he came in like doing all these things and I just cracked him BAM and it was over." From the David Allen Podcast available on itunes - HILARIOUS A MUST LISTEN Also talks about about the Wladamir Sauna story in detail at the end LOL!
Fury's people are no joke. You see all these idiots online making pikey jokes like they are Iron Mike behind keyboard but they are the first to run away from a fight.
There isn't a "Mexican bare knuckle champion", nor is there even a British bare knuckle champion. So this story is bull****. However, Tyson's father had a few organized bare knuckle fights, so it's not impossible that Tyson did too. 16 sounds like a big exaggeration.
There’s a bare knuckle circuit in most boxing countries. There’s definitely a scene in Mexico. I don’t think it’s made up, didn’t sound it on the podcast. Bare knuckle fighting goes back hundreds of years with Gypsies. Tyson is a tough guy, he’s been fighting all his life. Compare that to Joshua who’s been boxing since 18. Of Fury gets back in shape and now is fully motivated - he’ll beat him.
There's a bare knuckle circuit, but there is no champion, nor has there been one since the 1890s. Lots of people have claimed to be a champion though! The gypsy fights are arranged individually as money fights, not for some kind of championship. Of course there's the BBAD or whatever it is which Dave Radford and James McCrory were doing not too long ago. But that's a completely different circuit. The gypsies don't fight on that one.
I swear I heard Peter fury talk about how they kept Tyson away from all that because they recognised he would be a special boxer
I would probably disagree with this BC this stuff is underground. 16 is not alot of fights considering you can fight daily. I fought a Pennsylvania bare knuckle champion who went on to fight under Holmes and got a fight with Wilder but rules really weren't his thing. Nor mine !
You can fight as many people as you want, but getting paid for it is something else entirely. It takes months for the travelers to put together a fight for a few thousand quid a side. They have to make at least 20 videos using 1995 technology and put them on video before they even get close to setting a date for the fight. And no one is "champion". Champion of what? Recognized by whom?
I don't know what goes on over there, the guy I fought was well known and P.A is probably as almost as big as the U.K or like a big chunk of it . Like I said underground stuff is whatever.....
there is a pretty good bare knuckle Scene in great britain, especially among travellers. you have Joe joyce (not the olympic silver medalist) a huge hairy dude, Cowboys Michael quinn, the bkb champ Micky terrill, Decca heggie, big jon lewis......just to Name a few. so mr fury, Name the 16 men you beat. it shouldnt be too hard to verify his Claims. unless that fat coke head is talking **** as usual.