John Fury’s beef with ‘toughest white man on the planet’ who is Mike Tyson’s pal
John Fury, the dad of heavyweight champ Tyson Fury, has a bit of a tiff with Big Joe Egan – who Mike Tyson once called the “toughest white man on the planet”.
It all started when Egan sent out a video message saying, “hello everyone,” and “I have one last hurrah in me”. He hasn’t fought in more than 20 years but thinks he and John Fury would have a great boxing match. He even suggested they show the YouTubers and Saudi royals “how two old warriors can perform”.
Egan, 58, waited for Fury, 59, to respond, but there was silence. Maybe Fury had too much going on, as he was already in a verbal spat with former super-middleweight champion Carl Froch and had previously challenged heavyweight legend Iron Mike.
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But Egan wasn’t accomplished, stories the Manchester Evening News. He bought his previous sparring companion concerned to show up the strain. In a web based video, Mike Tyson stated: “John Fury, you’ve got my friend Joe Egan really mad at you, saying you wanted to fight me,” and “he also told me that you told Russell Crowe that he was a fraud. So, Joe Egan is looking for John Fury, okay?”
“And if I’m able to see that fight – I hope it’s not in England because I’m a felon, I can’t go to England. But he’s coming for you John Fury, for my honour.”
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Growing up in Dublin because the eldest of seven youngsters, Egan grew to become unlikely buddies with the legendary boxer within the 80s. After travelling to the US, the pair met when Egan, then 17, stayed on as a sparring companion for a budding Tyson. Spending greater than two years collectively within the ring and residing in New York’s Catskill Gym, Egan and Tyson grew to become shut friends.
It was Tyson who nicknamed Egan the ‘hardest white man’, after their first sparring session the place Egan was the one opponent left standing after three minutes. “If you are going to get battered you might as well get battered by the best,” Egan stated of his periods with Iron Mike.
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Unfortunately, Egan’s personal boxing profession was lower quick by a automobile accident after two fights in 1990. He went on to run a pub in Erdington, Birmingham. But in 1998, the person who took on Mike Tyson confronted a extra terrifying opponent.
“I had a demand for £500 a week protection money from a racketeering gang in Birmingham,” he informed The Sun. “After telling them no, the following week, on July 26, 1998, they attacked my pub. There were 37 of them armed with handguns, shotguns, machetes. It was a horrific day.”
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Egan was shot within the arm and nostril, and after that, he was charged with tried homicide however was discovered not responsible at his trial. His enterprise failed due to the cash he owed for court docket, and on the identical time, his girlfriend Lisa Murphy left him for Michael Flatley, the well-known dancer.
It was a very onerous time, and Egan stated he began doing dangerous issues as a result of he had no cash and wanted to pay for his authorized stuff. In 2001, he went to jail for 2 and a half years as a result of he was a part of a gang that stole automobiles from completely different international locations.
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“My business was failing and I ran out of money so I got involved with crime to pay for my legal fees,” he stated. The solely time I noticed my dad cry was as a result of I used to be going to jail. The disgrace I had, the disgust I had for myself, the damage and ache I had prompted him, I used to be so ashamed of myself.”
When Egan bought out of jail, he went again to boxing for a bit and gained a struggle in Dublin when he was 38. Then he grew to become an actor. He performed a boxer in a film by Guy Ritchie referred to as Sherlock with Robert Downey Jnr and was in one other film with Russell Crowe and a few TV exhibits too.
