He then won the Irish and WBO Inter-Continental titles, before defeating Chisora again in a 2014 rematch for the European and WBO International heavyweight titles.
After winning the English heavyweight title twice, he became the British and Commonwealth champion in 2011 by defeating the 14–0 Derek Chisora. He won the ABA super-heavyweight title in 2008 before turning professional later that year at 20 years of age. Fury's family lineage comes from Belfast and Galway his parents emigrated to England at a young age. Īs an amateur, Fury represented both England and Ireland, as he was born in Manchester to an Irish Traveller family. , he is also ranked sixth pound-for-pound by ESPN and the Boxing Writers Association of America, and seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. As of December 2022, Fury is ranked as the world's best active heavyweight by BoxRec and ESPN. With his defeat of Wilder, Fury became the third heavyweight, after Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali, to hold The Ring magazine title twice, and is widely considered by media outlets to be the lineal heavyweight champion.
Previously, he held the unified WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles from 2015 to 2016, and the Ring magazine title twice between 20. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2020.
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