Tommy Fury is the brother of ever known and ever popular pugillist Tyson Fury who is expected to face Nigeria born British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua pretty soon.
Everyone appears to be talking about Tyson Fury and the forthcoming battle against Joshua or better still every boxing lover is looking forward to the showdown.
But handsome Tommy Fury is equally into boxing and some appear not have noticed but he is doing his own thing and enjoying it refusing to be in anybody’s shadow.
‘I don’t want freebies'”Nobody ever pushed me into boxing,” says Tommy Fury who is now undefeated in five fights but carries the weight of his family name. “I’m not here to try to equal anything that anybody else has done.”
He was in the background at the gym staring longingly into the ring. He was ringside when nobody knew who he was. He was among the celebrations in Dusseldorf, drowned out by bigger, louder relatives.
Now the younger brother of Tyson Fury has his own spotlight it comes with criticism that he is a wannabe and a poser, that his boxing record is inflated just to look good on social media. Tommy Fury, though, has heard all this before. Remember, he was always there, you just didn’t notice him.
“Everybody looks at my career through a magnifying glass with a notebook and a pen,” Tommy tells Sky Sports.
He is among the latest crop of up-and-coming boxers with a famous surname – the path most recently trodden by Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn now has Tommy Fury and Campbell Hatton taking their earliest steps.
It comes with critics who cite hanging onto the successful relative’s coattails but Tommy says: “They don’t understand that I don’t feel that pressure because, as a 14-year-old kid, it was already there.
“‘Look, it’s Tyson’s brother, let’s watch him spar!’
“‘It’s Tyson’s brother, let’s watch his first amateur fight!’
“It’s nothing new to me for everybody to be judging and criticising me.
Tommy shot to fame in the summer of 2019 on Love Island – he had, by that time, already won his first two professional boxing matches but they had gone under the radar, as most boxers’ earliest assignments are designed to do.
The mainstream f
ame he now has due to his frolicking on reality television was held up as proof that he wasn’t a serious boxer. But when Tommy obliterated three opponents in the past 14 months, the criticism evolved to picking holes in the quality of those riv
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The 21-year-old is a half-brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (they share a father in ‘Gypsy’ John Fury, the fearsome voice that booms from the sidelines whenever either is in the ring).
John had 13 professional fights himself yet Tommy insists he was never forced into the family business.