Tyson Fury

Fury has been married to Paris Fury since November 2008. The couple have seven children together, including sons named Prince and Prince Rico Paris, and daughters named Venezuela, Valencia, and Athena.

Raised in a household with a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother, Fury later converted to Evangelical Christianity under the guidance of an uncle who was a Pentecostal preacher. In addition to his family background in boxing, his younger brother Tommy Fury is a boxer and reality television personality, and his cousin Andy Lee is also a professional boxer.

Born three months prematurely in Manchester, England, Fury weighed only one pound at birth. His father, John Fury, an Irish Traveller and former bare-knuckle fighter, named him after American world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson after doctors warned of slim survival odds. Fury grew up in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester and began formal boxing training at age ten under the tutelage of his father and uncles.

As an amateur, Fury represented both England and Ireland, capturing a gold medal at the EU Junior Championships in May 2007 and an English national championship in 2008. He made his professional boxing debut in December 2008, defeating Hungarian opponent Bela Gyongyosi by first-round technical knockout. He went on to secure the British, Commonwealth, and European heavyweight titles during his rise through the professional ranks.

In November 2015, Fury traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany, to face reigning unified world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, who had remained unbeaten for eleven years. Despite entering as a major underdog, Fury outpointed Klitschko across twelve rounds to secure a unanimous decision victory, claiming the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight belts.

Following his title victory, Fury entered a prolonged period away from competitive boxing, experiencing severe depression, weight gain that pushed him above 400 pounds, and substance addiction. In 2017, he accepted a backdated two-year suspension after a pre-Klitschko test returned positive for an anabolic steroid, during which time he voluntarily vacated his championship belts before initiating a fitness comeback.

Fury returned to competition in 2018 and challenged WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in December of that year. The bout concluded in a dramatic split draw after Fury rose from a heavy twelfth-round knockdown. In their February 2020 rematch, Fury stopped Wilder to win the WBC belt, subsequently defending it in their October 2021 trilogy fight by knockout and in title defenses against fellow British heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora.

In October 2023, Fury defeated former mixed martial arts champion Francis Ngannou via split decision after surviving a third-round knockdown. He later met Oleksandr Usyk in undisputed championship bouts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, dropping a split decision in May 2024 and losing their December 2024 rematch by unanimous decision.

Outside of championship boxing, Fury has authored two autobiographies, Behind the Mask (2019) and Gloves Off (2022), alongside the motivational guide The Furious Method (2020). His recovery and career were documented in the 2022 film Tyson Fury: Redemption.

Fury expanded his entertainment profile with multiple appearances in professional wrestling on WWE programming, including WWE SmackDown and WWE Monday Night Raw. In 2023, he began starring alongside his wife and father in the Netflix reality series At Home with the Furys.