FOR Tommy Fury, this wasn’t always the plan.
In fact, back in 2015, I can recall seeing him walking around a hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, wearing a Team Fury tracksuit and using his brother’s impending success to Create your own dream. He spoke that day – the day of Tyson Fury’s life-changing victory over Wladimir Klitschko – about his stress and excitement, and he also told me it was because of moments like that. which he also decided to join boxing.
At that time he was only 16 years old, although Tommy took the form of a much older boy. He’s also going to get bigger, in the span of two years his brother Tyson has managed to climb to the top of the weight class and succumb to a performance-enhancing drug controversy. , combined with bouts of depression, kept him out of the ring throughout 2016 and 2017.
However, by December 2018, Tyson was back in action and Tommy turned pro. A four-round match by Latvian Jevgenijs Andrejevs at Manchester Arena got Tommy started and in the next he stopped Callum Ide, a man without a win in 28 professional matches, in a match. the match. He’s young, of course, so time is on his side. Furthermore, while Tyson in his early years was able to take risks here and there thanks to his extensive amateur background, Tommy, boasting that he had no truly remarkable amateur background, not as lucky. Indeed, whenever in the pro ring, he comes across as crude the way all newbies do. A way of shouting potential and red flags in equal measure.
By 2019, seemingly unhappy with the reduction of his own brain cells in the ring, Fury attempted to lower the collective IQ of the British people by taking part in the ITV2 show. love island. Presented as an ideal opportunity to boost his reputation (of course), Fury’s appearance on love island finally an acknowledgment of types; an admission, i.e. Fury is only half interested in boxing and his real ambition is to achieve success, whether in the ring or elsewhere. In other words, he wants to be famous. That’s it.
However, unlike his brother, Tommy would not continue to be punched in the head if possible. Instead, and in many ways a smarter move, he chose to use Tyson’s career and name to take the ultimate shortcut to fame: shallow people saying and doing things shallow things to entertain shallow people at home.
It also works. In 2019, Tommy not only appeared on love island, he finished in second place, doing so alongside his girlfriend, Molly-May Hague, a privileged young woman who would later ruffle her feathers when hinting that the struggle only by laziness. Her fate is sealed by the deafening words: “Everyone has the same 24 hours.”
Alas, in both boxing and life, this is what we have made. Programs like love islandand promotions like Misfits Boxing, both of which serve us as “harmless entertainment” and “just a little fun”, are paralyzing an already docile segment of the population, in the process create false idols of young boys and girls adept at perfecting selfies but unable to concentrate long enough to read even the thank you page in their own bios.
As for Tommy Fury, one of such idols, he, afterlove island, now stuck in an awkward middle area. He is, on the one hand, now a broad-shouldered guy in the eyes of millions of young screen-addicted girls, but on the other hand, he continues with the idea of wanting to become a professional boxer.
And why not? He’s still young, still healthy and still needs something to be real do with his life. Being a reality TV star has an expiration date after all, as well as quiet moments and moments of monotony, even for the most blank and simple minds. For Fury, 23, this means boxing is back. This time, however, he’ll be playing against more fans and getting more attention and, in many ways, more pressured as well. Now he is fighting to protect not only the Fury fighting name but also his own famous brand.
This leads him to a strange parallel universe. Soon there were documentaries about his fights – fights that were completely pointless – and documentaries about his life with his girlfriend, a relationship no different. any relationship that begins and ends at a mall in Westfield. Then there’s the unexpected rivalry with Jake Paul, a YouTuber who, during Fury’s time dipping his toes elsewhere, has managed to capture the influencer boxer market. In fact, along with Londoner KSI, one could argue that Jake Paul did everything Tommy Fury wanted to do but for whatever reason, at the height of his popularity, are not do.
Now, with a one-time showdown between Fury and Paul apparently once again set for February 25, we have a situation where Paul, if only for his activism and ambition, has taken the role.” boxer” for Fury’s “reality star”. “. Now, it’s hard to see Fury the way we used to and cast him as a man – professional boxer – chosen to take down the annoying upstart with the audacity to think he We can switch from YouTube to the boxing ring.
Perhaps it was simply an indictment of Tommy Fury’s so-called boxing career. Or maybe, in the context of the world we live in, Fury, an aspiring celebrity, will see his no longer being identified as merely a “boxer” as something of akin. like a success. Sure, whether that’s true or not, thanks to the contempt of both boxing and society at large, Fury, 8-0 (4), can make more money than many smarter men and more money many better boxers in the years to come.
