TYSON FURY’S undisputed dream was driven by a childhood car sales career and cleaning up his own super fleet despite having millions in the bank.
The 35-year-old WBC Gypsy King flogged his first banger in 1999, trading his neighbor’s ride for a decent profit.
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Even now, when his TWO £384,000 Rolls Royce Phantoms, his vintage Bedford TK or his £140,000 Porsche Taycan need to be washed, he makes sure he, or one of his sons, sponges and polishes the engines to help remember your roots.
A mega-money victory for Saudi Arabia on Saturday over Ukraine icon and WBA, IBF and WBO boss Oleksandr Usyk will help make Fury boxing’s biggest and potentially richest star in 25 years.
But the father of seven was a red-hot vehicle dealer years earlier.
The WBC boss said: “Before boxing, I was a car dealer. While I’m boxing, I’ve been messing with cars. It’s my hobby.
“I love a deal, whether it’s 10 cents, 10 thousand or 10 million, it doesn’t matter. I love making a deal.
“My first car was a 1997 Fiat Fiorino. I paid £360 for it. That was my first car I drove.
“But I actually bought my first car when I was ten.
“It was a Renault Clio and I bought it three doors down and sold it for a profit. I bought it for £60 and sold it for £110 on the same day. So I’ve been buying and selling my whole life.
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“Another lesson I like to learn is that in the summer we always wash our cars, maybe every other day.
“I ask the kids why we do this and my son says ‘we wash this because things are hard to come by, Dad, and we have to take care of our own things, don’t we?’ And I say ‘yes, we did, well done, son’.”
Fury often puts on an on-camera performance that can overshadow the more insightful things he says to journalists.
Usyk, 37, has been labeled an “ugly bunny”, a “shit house” and a “middleweight giver”.
But hearing Fury talk about his potential two-fight rivalry with the Ukrainian father of four reminds us why this fight – between two undefeated icons – will be fantastic.
Fury said: “As a fighter he did everything that could be done so you have to respect him.
“He came from Ukraine, I don’t know what kind of background, but he’s probably poor. He did fantastic, as did Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, Joseph Parker and myself.
“We have all done a fantastic job, we are multi-millionaires who have changed our stars for the better. You have to respect and admire him. I don’t really know him as a man because I’ve never gone out with him for a beer. But from what I saw he is a family man.
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“I can 100 percent sit here and say, me or Usyk, when we sit down and we’re done, we’re not going to think about some idiot who said it was a good fight, a bad fight or an indifferent fight.
“We give our lives to this game. He’s probably been boxing longer than me, he’s had 315 amateur wins against 15 losses, so he’s had a lot of fights, and 20 or more as a professional.
“I don’t think he’ll care what people think of him when he’s making a fortune on the biggest stage in the world.
“I always say, unless you’re a boxer who’s won world championships, you can’t run over people.”
It’s life lessons like this that Fury is passing on to his boys.
Eldest son Prince was pictured at his camp in Riyadh and youngest son Tyson Jr is following in his father’s giant footsteps at home in Lancashire.
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And 20 years from now we could be waiting for another Tyson Fury to rule the boxing world.
Proud dad Fury added: “My son is seven years old, Tyson Jr, he goes to the boxing gym and he’s a fanatic about it all.
“He keeps winning awards every week – boxer of the week or hardest worker of the week.
“I say ‘why did you win this week?’ and he says ‘push-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, padwork and sparring – I got through them all’.
“I say ‘well done, son’.”
And if cool dad can bring all four belts back to Blighty on Sunday morning, we’ll be saying the same thing.
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