Luciano Gonzalez
02/20/2020 - 7:00
- Clarín.com
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The transaction of a mobile home did not go well and the dispute will not be resolved in a court, but in a pen. Mickey O'Neil, a gypsy used car salesman, receives several knock-out soup from Gorgeous George, a boxer and bodyguard that exceeds him in centimeters and kilos. After rolling a couple of times on the ground, Mickey gets up, elongates and throws a couple of blows into the air before taking off his shirt. He kisses the medal that he hangs on his neck and only then attacks, with a clean punch. Shortly after, George lies fainted.
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Legend has it that Mickey O'Neil, the character that Brad Pitt played in Snatch , was inspired by the legendary Bartley Gorman, considered the best modern nude knuckle fighter, undefeated for 20 years in unregulated fights at fairs, camps, parking lots, race tracks and even mines. The legend also states that Gorman, who died in 2002 at age 57 as a result of liver cancer, was part of the family tree of Tyson Luke Fury, the man who on Saturday will try in Las Vegas to snatch the heavy title of the World Council from Boxing to Deontay Wilder, in the rematch of the match they tied in December 2018.
Born in Manchester and son of Irish, like Morrissey and the brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, Fury grew up in a nomadic family of gypsy roots. Pugilism was part of his upbringing. “Boxing is a key element in our culture. First of all, you learn to fight. When we have a dispute, we don't go to the Police; we take off our shirts and solve it with punches. We fix it our way, we don't involve the law, ”explained the 2.06-meter giant, who is also a great-grandson of Uriah Burton, another legendary naked knuckle fighter.
His father John, another family boxer who came to do 13 professional fights, chose his son's name a month and a half before his birth, after watching Mike Tyson beat Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds in June 1988 Following in the footsteps of Iron Mike , although with a much less explosive and colorful boxing, Fury surprised the universe of gloves on November 28, 2015, when he defeated Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko, who had been nine and a half years old for points in Düsseldorf. as world champion, and snatched the titles of the WBA, the IBF and the WBO. After being proclaimed winner, he picked up the microphone and sang “I don't wanna miss a thing” , by Aerosmith, to his wife Paris, with whom he has five children.
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Then the debacle began. Twice he had to cancel the rematch with Klitschko, scheduled first on July 9 and then on October 29, 2016. The second, after having tested positive in a voluntary anti-doping control for the use of benzoylecgonine, a cocaine derivative. On October 3 of that year he announced his retirement through his Twitter account. “Boxing is the saddest thing I've participated in. All a lot of shit. I am the biggest and I am also retired, so go to breastfeed, happy days, ”he wrote.
Boxing is the saddest thing I ever took part in, all a pile of shit, I'm the greatest, & I'm also retired, so go suck a dick, happy days.😀😀😀
- TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) October 3, 2016In an interview published in Rolling Stone , he admitted that he had taken alcohol and "a lot of cocaine" to try to escape depression and revealed that he was suffering from bipolar disorder. “Cocaine is a very small thing compared to the fact that I don't want to live anymore. I don't know if I'm going to spend this year. I just hope someone kills me before I kill myself, ”he said. A few days later, he gave up his titles to focus on his recovery.
The gym and, above all, his family were the rope that rescued him from the abyss. “I had bought a new Ferrari. One day I was on the highway, I took the car at 300 kilometers per hour and headed towards a bridge. I just wanted to die. But on the bridge I heard a soft voice: 'Don't do that, Tyson, think of your children, who are going to grow up without their father,' ”he told the actor, sports commentator and martial arts specialist Joe Rogan in October 2018, for his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience .
Tyson Fury, with one of his striking costumes, during a press conference presenting the rematch with Deontay Wilder. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown / AFP)
By then, he had returned to boxing after more than two and a half years of inactivity: he had defeated Albanian Sefer Seferi and Italian Francesco Pianeta. In December, the challenge came before Wilder: the Gypsy King was superior, but he visited the canvas twice, in the 9th and 12th rounds. The undefeated duel resulted in a tie that left the girdle at the waist of the American. However, the Briton is still considered champion for never having given up his titles in the ring. On Saturday you will have the chance to materialize that idea and definitely gain recognition from the world of boxing.
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Despite his very high profile, he ensures that the eyes of others are irrelevant. “Old Tyson Fury was worried about being accepted. Now the only thing that worries me is to wake up every day with a healthy mind and support my family. I don't care if people accept me, like what I do or hate myself, ”he said in an interview with GQ magazine in April last year, shortly before knocking out German Tom Schwarz in Las Vegas.
That more reflexive version has its counterfigure in a Fury without polishing, capable of expressing ideas very little aggiornadas to the 21st century: he considered that the roles of women are “clean, cook, have children and take care of their man” and assessed that “they should be happy with that lifestyle. ” He also said that "if I had a sister who wanted to open her legs with each Tom, Dick or Harry, I would hang it because it would bring misfortune to the family." "Women cannot go out to drink in the city and do whatever they want, they have to be pure and respectful," he said.
Fervent Christian, he also listed the practices that indicated “the devil's entry into the home”: homosexuality, abortion and pedophilia. And he affirmed that "the Zionist Jews brainwash the whole world" because "they own all the banks, all the media." A draconian? “We don't like women to be prostitutes, we don't take children. If that is being a draconian, then I suppose I like being a draconian. ”