Big John Fury is challenging Mike Tyson to an official boxing match
Big John Fury wants to go toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson in a boxing match.
The father of Tyson Fury, the world heavyweight boxing champion of the world, thinks he has what it takes to beat one of the most iconic people in the sport's history.
John is a boxer in his own right and fought for eight years.
He also claims he's a descent from a long line of bare-knuckle fighters, according to talkSPORT.
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The 6 feet 3 inch 59-year-old has a fighting record of 8–4–1 and while his last official fight was back in the mid-'90s, he would happily go into a ring against Tyson.
Not only that, but he reckons he would win.
He said (via The Sun): “I’m definitely not teasing. I want to fight him.
“Win, lose or draw, I will fight Mike Tyson, don’t you worry about that. I know the Saudis can make it happen.
“I had eight wins, I beat the Italian heavyweight champ, he was six foot seven, 18 stone, I beat him, the man who beat Tyson.
“Kevin McBride stopped Tyson Michael Murray stopped McBride and I stopped Murray. So I am in with a chance.
“He’s f****d and I’m f****d, but I think that I am in a little bit of a better condition than him and I know that I am every bit as strong as him.
“If he chins me, he chins me, but I’ll try and chin him also.”
He has a gripe with Tyson at the moment and it's because Iron Mike is helping train Francis Ngannou to fight Tyson Fury.
Fury and Ngannou will battle it out in the ring night on October 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Big John told Sky Sports: "I think that it’s sad, actually.
"The man that I am named after, a legend, has to go against me and then come out as a loser, having lost to a man who was named after him.
"I think that it’s sad and I think that he should be in my corner, not the opposing corner, but business is business and I understand that it’s strictly business.”
However, John is confident his son Tyson will have what it takes to best Francis.
“No matter what [Mike] teaches this fella [Ngannou], no matter how much boxing training he does, everyone has got a plan until they get punched in the face and I’m not sure who said that, but that is true," he said.
Stewart Perrie