Tyson Fury: Age, Record, Height and the Fury Family

Tyson Fury is a British heavyweight boxer who ended Wladimir Klitschko's nine-year title reign in 2015 and held the WBC heavyweight championship from 2020 to 2024. He remains an active professional as of September 2026.

Tyson Fury Quick Facts

Verified career and physical data for Tyson Fury, checked against record sources on September 1, 2026.

Record	36-2-1 (W-L-D) 25 KO
Status	Active
Nickname	The Gypsy King
Division	Heavyweight
Nationality	🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Age	38born August 12, 1988
Height	206 cm 6 ft 9 in
Weight	90.7 kg 200 lb (heavyweight limit, no upper bound)
Pro debut	December 6, 2008
Years active	2008 to present 18 years
Team	Team Fury, Morecambe
Social	@gypsyking101

Boxing Gear

Wythenshawe, and a Surname That Already Meant Boxing

Tyson Luke Fury was born on August 12, 1988 in Wythenshawe, a large housing estate on the southern edge of Manchester. He arrived three months premature and weighed about one pound. His father, John Fury, a former professional heavyweight who boxed under the name Gypsy John, named him after Mike Tyson, who was the undisputed heavyweight champion that summer.

The family are English Travellers, and Fury has always described that background as the centre of who he is rather than a detail attached to him. The ring name follows from it. Bare-knuckle fighting reputation passed down through his father's line, and "Gypsy King" was a title claimed rather than invented for a poster. He has repeated the point in interviews across two decades: the boxing came from the family, not from a talent scout.

He started boxing at ten under his father's instruction. The formal schooling stopped early, which Fury has spoken about openly, and the gym filled the gap. He trained at Jimmy Egan's Boxing Academy in Wythenshawe and also boxed out of Holy Family in Belfast, an arrangement that reflected the family's roots on both sides of the Irish Sea and that later gave him the option of representing either country as an amateur.

The physical facts were unusual from the start. By his teens he was already close to the 6 ft 9 in he stands as an adult, which in amateur boxing is a problem as much as a gift. Boys that tall are usually pushed to stand still, keep the jab out and win on reach. Fury went the other way, and the habit of moving his feet at that height is the single thing that separates his boxing from every other giant heavyweight who came before him.

The Amateur Years: Two Countries, One ABA Title

Fury compiled an amateur record of 31 wins and 4 losses across 35 bouts before turning professional at twenty. He boxed for both Ireland and England during that period, a consequence of the family's Irish heritage and the Belfast club connection rather than any switch of allegiance.

His best amateur result came in 2008, when he won the ABA senior super heavyweight title. Before that he had taken bronze at the 2006 AIBA Youth World Championships and medalled at European junior level. The 2008 ABA win arrived in the same year as the Beijing Olympics, and the obvious route was to wait, chase a Games place and turn professional with an Olympic line on the CV. He did not wait. He turned over in December of that year instead.

Tyson Fury as a Young Fighter

The young Fury on amateur tapes is recognisably the same boxer, only thinner and less patient. The switch-hitting was already there. So was the habit of dropping his hands and leaning back out of range rather than blocking, which coaches spend years trying to remove from teenagers and which Fury kept because it worked for him. What was missing was the body work and the willingness to hold in close, both of which arrived much later in his professional career.

The decision to skip the Olympic cycle is worth sitting with, because it shaped everything afterwards. An Olympic medal would have brought a promotional bidding war and a managed route. Turning professional at twenty with no medal meant small halls, six-round fights on undercards and a father in the corner. It also meant he could fight often. He had eight professional bouts inside his first year.

From Small Halls to the Klitschko Night

The Debut in Nottingham

Tyson Fury made his professional debut on December 6, 2008 at the National Ice Centre in Nottingham, stopping the Hungarian Béla Gyöngyösi in the first round at 2:14. It was a six-round fight on a Frank Warren card and it lasted less than one.

The pattern held. Marcel Zeller went in three in January 2009, Daniil Peretyatko in two in February, Lee Swaby in four in March, Matthew Ellis in one in April. Eight fights, eight wins, seven inside the distance, all before his twenty-first birthday. That kind of schedule is now almost extinct at heavyweight, and it gave Fury something that later opponents did not have: rounds, and a lot of them, against men who were trying to survive rather than win.

The first real test came twice against John McDermott. In September 2009 Fury took a points decision over ten rounds that a large part of the press box scored the other way, and the English heavyweight title with it. In June 2010 the pair met again and Fury removed the doubt, stopping McDermott in the ninth. That second fight is the one to watch if you want to see what changed: he stopped trying to outbox McDermott from a distance and started walking him onto the uppercut.

British and Commonwealth honours followed in July 2011 with a twelve-round unanimous decision over Dereck Chisora at Wembley Arena, the first of three meetings between them. The European title and a second British belt came in November 2014, when Chisora's corner pulled him out after ten rounds of a fight Fury boxed almost entirely from a southpaw stance. That performance, more than any of the wins that came before it, was the argument that he could handle Klitschko.

Klitschko, Wilder and Usyk: The Fights That Decide His Standing

On November 28, 2015 at the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Tyson Fury beat Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision to win the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring and lineal heavyweight titles. The judges scored it 115-112, 116-111 and 115-112. Klitschko had held a version of the world title since 2006.

The plan was not complicated and it was executed almost perfectly. Klitschko's entire method depended on establishing a jab at a fixed range, tying up on the inside and landing the straight right when his opponent's feet stopped. Fury denied him the range by changing stance repeatedly, kept his hands low so there was nothing to time, and moved his head off the centre line while staying just outside the jab. Klitschko threw fewer than eighteen punches per round for long stretches. He had never been made to look hesitant before. The fight was not exciting and it did not need to be.

The Deontay Wilder trilogy is the other pillar, and it is the better watch. The first fight, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on December 1, 2018, ended in a split draw: Alejandro Rochin scored it 115-111 for Wilder, Robert Tapper 114-112 for Fury, Phil Edwards 113-113. Fury outboxed Wilder for most of the twelve rounds and was dropped twice, the second time in the final round by a left hook and overhand right that left him flat on his back with the referee counting. He got up. That single image did more for his public standing than any decision could have.

The rematch on February 22, 2020 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena reversed the approach completely. Fury weighed 273 lb, sixteen and a half pounds heavier than for the first fight, and walked forward from the opening bell under new trainer SugarHill Steward. He dropped Wilder in the third and the fifth and the corner threw in the towel in the seventh. The bout sold roughly 800,000 to 850,000 pay-per-view buys through traditional providers in the United States, with several hundred thousand more digital purchases on top.

The third fight, on October 9, 2021 at the T-Mobile Arena, was the best of the three and among the best heavyweight fights of the century. Fury dropped Wilder in the third. Wilder dropped Fury twice in the fourth. Fury dropped Wilder again in the tenth and finished him with a right hand in the eleventh. Both men weighed career highs, Fury at 277 lb. The fight sold around 600,000 domestic pay-per-view buys at $79.99.

Then came Oleksandr Usyk, and the trilogy that did not go Fury's way. On May 18, 2024 at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, with all four major belts on the line, Usyk won a split decision: 115-112 Usyk, 114-113 Fury, 114-113 Usyk. Fury was hurt badly in the ninth and given a standing count. It was the first defeat of his professional career, in his thirty-sixth fight. The rematch on December 21, 2024 at the same venue was clearer. All three judges scored it 116-112 for Usyk. CompuBox credited Usyk with 179 landed from 423 thrown at 42.3 per cent, against Fury's 144 from 509 at 28.3 per cent, and the accuracy gap is the whole story of the fight.

The Layoff, the Doping Case and the Return

Fury did not box between the Klitschko win in November 2015 and June 2018. Two separate matters ran through that period and they are often conflated.

The first is the anti-doping case. UK Anti-Doping charged Fury and his cousin Hughie Fury over nandrolone metabolite readings above the permitted threshold in samples taken in February 2015. In a joint statement issued in December 2017, UKAD confirmed that the anti-doping rule violations based on those findings were upheld, that a separate refusal charge was withdrawn, and that both boxers accepted a two-year period of ineligibility backdated to December 13, 2015 and expiring at midnight on December 12, 2017. The statement also recorded that the results of the February 2015 competition were disqualified, while results after that date stood because no further adverse findings followed. Each side described the outcome as a compromise of its position.

The second is that Fury stepped away from the sport entirely. He has spoken publicly and repeatedly about the depression and the alcohol and cocaine use of that period, and about reaching a weight above 400 lb by 2017 having fought Klitschko in the 240s. He vacated the world titles he had won in Düsseldorf rather than defend them. The relevant point for a boxing record is the shape of the gap: a reigning lineal heavyweight champion gave up every belt he owned and did not fight for two and a half years, then came back and won the WBC title inside two years of returning. There is no comparable sequence in the modern heavyweight division.

The comeback itself was managed carefully. Sefer Seferi in June 2018, retired after four rounds. Francesco Pianeta over ten in August. Then Wilder in December, four fights and six months after a two-and-a-half-year layoff, which remains one of the more reckless matchmaking decisions any returning champion has made.

Tyson Fury's Retirements and Returns

Tyson Fury is not retired. He has announced retirement or an intention to retire on several occasions, including in 2013, 2016, twice in 2022 and again after the second Usyk defeat, and has returned each time.

The pattern matters because it is the reason the question is asked so often. After stopping Dillian Whyte at Wembley in April 2022 he said in the ring that it was his final fight. He fought Chisora that December. After the December 2024 loss to Usyk he announced his retirement in January 2025. On January 4, 2026 he posted on Instagram that he was returning, writing that 2026 was the year and that he was thirty-seven and still punching. He fought twice in the following seven months.

Where Tyson Fury Stands

As of September 1, 2026, Tyson Fury is an active professional heavyweight with a record of 36 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, with 25 wins by stoppage. He holds no world title. His record was verified against published bout results on September 1, 2026.

His most recent bout as of September 2026 was against Mariusz Wach on July 24, 2026 at the Max Muay Thai Stadium in Pattaya, Thailand. Fury won when Wach's corner retired him after seven rounds. Fury weighed 265 lb, Wach 291.4 lb, the first time in Fury's professional career that he entered a fight as the lighter man. The venue held roughly 1,500 people and the bout was not sold as a pay-per-view event.

Before that, on April 11, 2026, he returned at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London against Arslanbek Makhmudov and won a twelve-round unanimous decision, scored 120-108, 120-108 and 119-109 by the official judges. The event was promoted by Zuffa Boxing, streamed on Netflix and drew an announced 64,500, higher than the 59,789 who watched him beat Chisora at the same stadium in 2022. He weighed 269 lb.

A fight with Anthony Joshua was announced as signed on April 28, 2026 and has been targeted at November 2026, with the venue and the exact date unconfirmed as of September 2026. Both men were required to win a tune-up bout for the deal to hold, and both did: Fury against Wach on July 24, Joshua by second-round knockout against Kristian Prenga in Riyadh on July 25. Announced heavyweight dates move, and this one has no confirmed date attached to it, so treat the November window as provisional rather than fixed.

How Fury Actually Boxes

Range, Rhythm and the Switch

Fury is 6 ft 9 in with an 85 in reach, and the interesting thing is how little of his boxing depends on either number. Most tall heavyweights fight in a straight line, jabbing to hold distance and clinching when the distance closes. Fury does the opposite. He closes distance on purpose, leans, holds, turns his man, then steps out and resets. The height is a tool he uses selectively rather than a system he is locked into.

He boxes from an orthodox stance by default and switches to southpaw freely, sometimes several times inside a round. Against Chisora in 2014 he spent most of the fight left-handed. The switch is not decoration. Changing lead foot changes the angle of the opponent's jab and forces a right-handed fighter to reset his feet, which for a pressure heavyweight is exhausting when it happens forty times a night.

The hands are low, often at waist height, and he pulls straight back rather than slipping to the side. Every orthodox coaching manual says this is wrong. It works for Fury for one specific reason: at his height, pulling back removes his chin from range in a way that a shorter fighter cannot manage, and the low hands invite the lead that he wants to counter. The cost is visible in the Wilder fights, where a long right hand that arrives while he is leaning back catches him flush.

The weight has moved a lot, and the movement is deliberate rather than accidental. He weighed 256.5 lb against Wilder in December 2018, 254 lb against Otto Wallin in September 2019, then 273 lb for the second Wilder fight and 277 lb for the third. The lighter versions box and move. The heavier versions walk forward and lean on people. Against Usyk in December 2024 he came in at a career-high 281 lb against an opponent who weighed 226 lb, and the extra mass did not produce the pressure it had produced against Wilder.

What Has Beaten Him

Three fights account for every blemish on the record, and two names appear on them. The common thread is not power. Wilder is the biggest puncher of the three and is the one Fury solved.

What troubled him was volume from angles he could not pull away from. Usyk fought at a range where Fury's lean-back defence had nowhere to go, moved laterally to his own left so the counter right had no target, and threw in threes and fours rather than singles. Fury's answer in both fights was to hold and to work the body in spells, which won him rounds without ever changing the shape of the contest. Against Ngannou in October 2023 he was dropped in the third by a left hook from a man having his first professional boxing match, and won a split decision that a large part of the sport disagreed with.

The pattern across all three is the same: Fury is at his most vulnerable when the opponent is comfortable at mid-range and does not respect the reach enough to stay outside it.

The Complete Record and Every Title

The table below lists all 39 of Tyson Fury's professional bouts, most recent first, verified against published results on September 1, 2026.

Titles won across the career:

• English heavyweight title (2009, regained 2010)
• British heavyweight title (2011, regained 2014)
• Commonwealth heavyweight title (2011)
• Irish heavyweight title (2012)
• WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight title (2012, regained 2019)
• European heavyweight title (2014)
• WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring and lineal heavyweight titles (2015)
• WBC and The Ring heavyweight titles (2020 to 2024)

What Tyson Fury Has Earned

Published estimates of Tyson Fury's net worth cluster between roughly £120 million and £165 million, with the most credible single figure being the £162 million estimate published by The Sunday Times Rich List on May 15, 2026, when Fury entered its "40 Under 40" ranking for the first time. That figure is an outside estimate, not a disclosure, and no filing supports it.

Forbes is the other named source worth quoting. In its list of the world's highest-paid athletes published on May 15, 2025, Forbes placed Fury third across all sport with $146 million in earnings for the twelve months to May 1, 2025, split as $140 million in-ring and $6 million off it. Only Cristiano Ronaldo at $275 million and Stephen Curry at $156 million earned more. The striking part is that the $140 million was generated in a year containing two defeats.

Documented purses are a different and more reliable category, because they come from purse bids, promoters' disclosures and reported contract terms rather than from wealth modelling. The largest of them:

• Approximately $105 million guaranteed for the first Usyk fight in May 2024, reported as 70 per cent of a purse pool of around $150 million, with Usyk on roughly $45 million.
• $50 million for the Francis Ngannou bout in October 2023, against $10 million for Ngannou, before pay-per-view income.
• 80 per cent of a record purse bid of $41,025,000 for the Dillian Whyte fight in April 2022, won by Queensberry Promotions and the highest successful purse bid in the sport's history at the time.
• A reported £18.8 million for the Makhmudov fight in April 2026.
• $5 million base against Wilder in February 2020, which reporting at the time put above $25 million once pay-per-view percentages were counted.

Those five figures alone total well over $200 million in disclosed or reported fight income, before endorsements, the Netflix series and the smaller purses from the first twenty-five fights of his career.

The honest caveat is that net worth figures for athletes are third-party estimates produced without access to tax filings, trust structures or private investments, and they routinely disagree with each other by tens of millions. Boxing makes this worse than most sports, because headline purses are frequently gross figures before the promoter's share, training costs, sanctioning fees and tax. The documented purses above are the reliable number. The net worth figures are the estimate.

The Highest Earner in Boxing?

No. Career earnings in boxing remain headed by Floyd Mayweather, whose gross career income is generally reported in the region of a billion dollars across a much longer run of self-promoted pay-per-view events. Fury's single-year Forbes total of $146 million is exceptional; his career total is not in that conversation.

Family, Marriage and Life Outside the Ring

Paris Fury

Paris Fury is Tyson Fury's wife. The couple married in 2008, the same year he turned professional, and she has since become a public figure in her own right in Britain as an author and television personality.

She has written two books, "Love and Fury: The Magic and Mayhem of Life with Tyson" and "How Does She Do It?", has appeared as a panellist on daytime television, and is a central presence in the Netflix series "At Home with the Furys", which is where most of the public interest in the family originates. Her public profile is her own work rather than a reflection of her husband's, which is unusual among boxers' spouses and is the reason her name draws substantial search volume independently of his.

The Cousin Question

Tyson and Paris Fury are third cousins, a fact Tyson stated himself in a public post on his own account in 2012. They shared the surname before they married. Neither has treated the connection as a secret and both have referred to it in interviews since. Marriage between third cousins is legal throughout the United Kingdom and the relationship is a distant one, four generations removed from a common ancestor.

Tyson Fury's Children

Tyson and Paris Fury have seven children. Their names, all of which the couple have made public themselves and several of which they have announced on social media at birth, are Venezuela, Prince John James, Prince Tyson, Valencia, Prince Adonis Amaziah, Athena and Rico.

Several of the sons carry the name Prince, a family naming choice Paris Fury has written about, and the country and place names given to the daughters follow the same pattern of deliberate distinctiveness. This profile does not publish the children's ages, schools or locations. Several of them are minors and their birthdays are not material to a boxing record.

The Fury Family Tree

The Fury name runs through several boxing careers and the relationships are regularly reported wrongly, so they are worth setting out plainly.

Tyson's father is John Fury, a former professional heavyweight who fought in the 1980s and 1990s and who trained Tyson until 2011. His mother is Amber Fury. She has stayed out of public life throughout her son's career, does not appear in the family's television work, and nothing further about her belongs in a boxing profile.

Tyson has three full brothers, John Jr, Shane and Hughie, and two half-brothers from his father's second marriage, Roman and Tommy. Shane Fury has worked around his brother's career and appears in the family's Netflix series without being a professional boxer himself, which is the source of most searches for his name. Tommy Fury is a professional boxer and a television personality.

Two more Furys are frequently mistaken for brothers. Peter Fury is Tyson's uncle and trained him from 2014 through the Klitschko win. Peter's son Hughie Fury, a professional heavyweight, is therefore Tyson's cousin rather than the brother of the same name. Both Hughies exist. That is the single most common error made about this family.

Outside Boxing

Fury's public life beyond the ring runs mostly through television. "At Home with the Furys" put the household on Netflix and reframed him for an audience with no interest in heavyweight boxing. He has also had a documented association with Morecambe, the Lancashire town where the family is based, including a sponsorship arrangement with the local football club.

He is one of the more visible figures in the sport's best known names, and unusually among modern heavyweights, that visibility is not built on a title reign. He has held a world title for six of his eighteen professional years. The reason people know the name is the two-and-a-half-year absence, the return, and the willingness to say almost anything into a microphone.