‘I’m Tyson Fury’s promoter however I’m fortunate to be alive after a thug shot me’
Tyson Fury‘s promoter Frank Warren can rely his fortunate stars he is nonetheless alive after being shot by a balaclava-clad thug.
Warren, 71, has been across the boxing scene for a few years and suffered his justifiable share of ups and downs. He’s now often known as Fury’s promoter, although has additionally represented the likes of Frank Bruno and Ricky Hatton.
It was again in 1989 when Warren was 37 when the promoter was engaged on a present at Barking. Though it didn’t have the ending he hoped for.
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“I wasn’t even meant to be at the show,” Warren advised the Independent. “As we get out of the car, I hear a bang. I think it’s a car backfiring.
“I look around and see this fella with a balaclava, and I hear a click. I think it’s a joke. Next minute, there’s another bang, and I feel this pain in my side.”
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With ambulances on strike, Warren was bundled right into a police van and brought to a hospital in Shooters Hill. Though he was not out of the woods simply but given the injury inflicted by the bullet.
“I can feel them cutting my clothes off, brand new bloody suit I’ve got on,” Warren provides. “I say to my uncle, ‘Don’t let them knock me out!’ I felt, if I’d got knocked out… That was the only time I thought I was going to die.”
Police told Warren’s wife Susan the promoter had just a ’50-50 chance’ of survival – but he pulled through.
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Indeed, Warren was again working inside three weeks having discharged himself from hospital after dropping about three stone in weight.
No one has ever been sentenced for the taking pictures with Terry Marsh, who had grow to be Warren’s first world champion two years earlier than the assault, having been acquitted by a jury.
Warren continues to be on the high of the boxing selling recreation, and not too long ago collaborated with Eddie Hearn on the Day of Reckoning card in Saudi Arabia.
