Only Englishman to ever defeat Tyson Fury now leads a very different life to boxing
In Tyson Fury's long career he's hardly ever stepped out of the boxing ring as anything besides the winner.
His professional record reads as him having 34 wins and just one draw, while his amateur boxing career has him down as winning 31 times and being defeated on just four occasions.
Only one of those defeats has come against an English opponent, with Fury having been defeated by David Price in 2006.
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Price would go on to represent Team GB at the 2008 Olympic Games, where he won a bronze medal as a super-heavyweight.
However, he announced his retirement from boxing back in 2021, with his final fight having been a defeat to Derek Chisora a couple of years earlier.
These days he's hung up the boxing gloves for something else as he spoke to the Daily Mirror about what he's been up to since then.
The former boxer has changed careers and become a heating engineer, which he said he loved doing and was glad he'd found a life beyond boxing.
He said: "I didn’t know what I was going to do until I kind of fell into this. It was the Covid lockdown time and I didn't know what I was going to do.
"There was always a cause for concern for me in regards to what was I going to do when I finished, to keep the providing for my family.
"I just kind of transitioned into this and it was the perfect time. I’m thankful that I was lucky enough, but I've worked b****dy hard as well to do what I'm doing now and I continue to do so. Long may that continue."
Price also remembered a rivalry between himself and Fury, saying that the heavyweight champion once 'wrote a letter to Boxing News saying he was going to take my place in the Olympics'.
He said: "No one had ever really seen that as an amateur, a letter to the Boxing News, but that was typical of the background he'd come from. I had to deal with that.
“I was like, ‘who’s this kid?’ He won a medal in the World Junior Championships as well at the time, which is not easy to do, so I knew he was capable of doing what he said."
The letter from Fury had the consequence of Price 'wanting to do a number on him and put him in his place', and the former boxer remembers it as 'a good fight'.
He said: "I never ever thought he’d go on to do what he's gone on to do.
"He used to talk and talk and I just never, ever thought he would walk what he was talking.
"He proved me wrong, and good on him. I‘ll probably be the only Englishman to beat him, unless AJ fights him and manages to do a number on him."
Speaking to ITV back in 2009, Fury explained why he thought he'd lost against Price, and he definitely didn't mince his words.
He said: "When I fought him I was a raw 17-year-old kid. He was 23 or something like that. I'd had 10 bouts and he'd had 70.
"He was a Commonwealth champion and had won all sorts while I was a novice.
"He was the only one who ended up on the floor and I was trying to catch him with big hooks while his style was totally suited to the amateurs.
"As somebody said to me after if I was a double ABA champion, a Commonwealth champion with 70 fights and I could only do that to a 10-fight novice I'd pack the game in!"
Fury then confidently declared that he'd 'smash his face in' if the two ended up in the ring together again, but alas they never did so we'll never know how it would have gone.
As for what he's up to now, Fury will fight Oleksandr Usyk this weekend (18 May) in an undisputed heavyweight championship fight.
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Joe Harker