Born on the 12th day of August, 1988 in Wythenshawe, United Kingdom, Tyson Luke Fury is a British Professional Boxer. With a commanding height of 6′ 9″, Fury came to limelight after defeating long-reigning world champion Wladimir Klitschko. In the same fight, Fury also won the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO titles, with the victory earning him Fighter of the Year and Upset of the Year awards by The Ring.

Early Career

Fury made his professional debut at the age of 20 on 6 December 2008 in Nottingham, on the undercard of Carl Froch vs. Jean Pascal and live on free to air ITV4 in the U.K against Hungarian fighter Bela Gyongyosi, who Fury defeated via TKO in the first round with a combination to head and body. Then until July 2009 he went on to have six more fights in the space of seven months, defeating Marcel Zeller, Daniil Peratyakto, Lee Swaby, Matthew Ellis, Scott Belshaw and Aleksandrs Selezens all via knockout within 4 rounds.
On 23 July 2011 Fury faced undefeated heavyweight Dereck Chisora for the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles at Wembley Arena in London. With Chisora aged 27 and Fury just 22 years old, both men went into the fight with a record of 14-0 and despite Fury's superior size and reach, Chisora went into the fight as the favourite. After 12 hard fought rounds Fury won via unanimous decision (117-112, 117-112, 118-111) with the fight shown live on free to air Channel 5.
Within a year, Fury had another four fights against Nicolai Firtha, Neven Pajkic , Martin Rogan and Vinny Maddalone and won them all via TKO within 5 rounds.
Fury rescheduled a rematch with Chisora on 29th November 2014 at Excel London. Fury was victorious again after dominating the fight up until Chisora's corner pulled him out at the end of the 10th round.

The fight against Wladimir Klitschko, a World Heavyweight title showdown, for the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, Lineal and The Ring Heavyweight titles took place on 28 November 2015, at Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, with Fury winning after twelve rounds by a unanimous points decision, with scores of 116–111, 115–112, 115–112.
On 8 December 2015, the IBF stripped Fury of its title, as the contract for the fight against Klitschko included a rematch clause, precluding Fury from facing the IBF's mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov. Fury had held the IBF belt for only 10 days.

Cancelled Rematch

After months of negotiation, on 8 April 2016 the rematch with Klitschko was finally announced, this time with the fight scheduled to take place in Fury's home town of Manchester at Manchester Arena on 9 July 2016.On Friday 24 June 2016, it was announced that this fight would be postponed to a later date due to Fury sustaining a sprained ankle in training. On the same Friday, Tyson Fury and his cousin, Hughie Fury, were charged by UK Anti-Doping "with presence of a prohibited substance" from a sample 16 months previously in February 2015, a misconduct the two boxers "strenously deny". On September 23, Fury again postponed the fight after being declared "medically unfit".It was reported by ESPN, Fury[b] had failed a drug test [/b]a day before he pulled out of his World title rematch. Fury cited problems with depression after a positive test for cocaine.

Relinquishing world titles and ban

On 12 October 2016, pending investigation on anti-doping and medical issues, Fury took it upon himself to vacate the WBA (Unified), WBO, IBO heavyweight titles, following an emotional statement. It was said that Fury would have been stripped eventually. However, Fury's decision was based on not having himself under constant pressure and allows him time to recover, get professional medical help and spend time with his family.
On 13 October, the British Boxing Board of Control decided to suspend Fury's boxing licens[/b]e. A date in November was set for the appeal hearing

[b]Potential comeback in 2017

In December, Fury's uncle Peter announced that Tyson would be returning around Spring time in 2017 and would aim for a fight against WBC champion Deontay Wilder, who himself will take part in a voluntary defense in February. On December 23, Tyson tweeted that he was back in training ahead of a ring return around April or May 2017. His tweet read, "Merry Christmas guys. I've had a nightmare 2016, done a lot of stuff I'm not proud of, but my promise to you is I'll return in 2017."