Fist of Fury

Daliy Star - Nick Parkinson11th January, 2009

TYSON FURY insists he'll shake up the world - and reckons he could beat British heavyweight champion Danny Williams in FIVE rounds.

The giant boxer from Manchester, 20, is named after former undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

And his goals are as big as his 6ft 8ins frame.

He is one of a crop of exciting former amateur boxers beginning their professional careers, with Olympians like gold medal winner James DeGale also set to enter the paid ranks next month.

Fury made a stunning professional debut when he stopped Bela Gyongyosi with a crunching left to the body in two rounds last month - after cutting short his honeymoon.

Yet after winning the ABA super-heavyweight title last year, Fury decided against staying amateur for another four years in order to box at the London 2012 Olympics.

Instead, he aims to be in the hunt for the world heavyweight titles by the time the next Games arrive.

Fury, who has his second professional fight in Wigan on Saturday, aims to become British champion inside two years.

And he is even prepared to step into the ring now with the vastly more experienced Williams, London's former world title challenger, who knocked out Mike Tyson in 2004.

Fury said: "I became very disillusioned with the amateur boxing authorities.

"Who's to say that in four years time, had I stayed amateur, I might not have been selected for the Olympics?

"But that's all water under the bridge now. I'm hoping to challenge for the British title by the end of the next year.

"You have to be 21 to challenge for the British title, so I have to wait and get more experience.

"There's nothing out there that worries me. I'm six feet eight inches tall and weigh 18-and-a-half stones, which is an advantage.

"Yet I can move and have speed, which is unusual for a heavyweight."

Fury added: "You have got David Haye and Matt Skelton, who are above domestic level - but apart from that there's not much.

"Danny Williams is the British champion but he's had too many hard battles now and I don't think he'd do five rounds with me.

"If they'd put me in with Danny I'd have done it - but my promoter Mick Hennessy wouldn't allow it.

"But I'd be too much for him."

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