Tyson Fury plans to become a qualified doctor after boxing career

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He was egg shaped and his head looked like a cliff. Ignorant really.

[oogiebe]

[quote=CharlesListon post_id=4929625 He was egg shaped and his head looked like a cliff. Ignorant really.

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Whoa! Did I miss a post? I don't get it Charles...

[CharlesListon]

It was just a follow up to a comment on a previous post.

There was this oriental kid in school, never spoke a word. He looked weird. He was egg shaped and his head looked like a cliff.
One with an easy route up and one really hard route up, almost vertical.

[oogiebe]

It was just a follow up to a comment on a previous post.

There was this oriental kid in school, never spoke a word. He looked weird. He was egg shaped and his head looked like a cliff.
One with an easy route up and one really hard route up, almost vertical.

Oh.

[Loynesy]

Say what you like about this Forum, but one thing it never fails to do, is entertain.

[jamesmcdonnell]

fury is not only ignorant, but hes also clearly not that bright. the level of intelligence required to qualify to attend medical school, let alone qualify is well beyond even most bright and academic high achievers.

saying you can become a doctor because you managed to become heavyweight champ is like saying a master butcher could be a neurosurgeon.

[jamesmcdonnell]

pinnacle of academia!
dont make me laugh. doctors always think theyre something special , when more often than not , they simply come from priveledged backgrounds. yes, some have a vocation, some are hard workers, some are no doubt academically brilliant, but the vast majority are just the same as anyone else.....and you wont tell me different, cos i went to a top uni, have friends who studied medicine, and have known plenty of doctors personally, both in this country and abroad.
if fury genuinely wanted it and was prepared to make the sacrifices, the only thing stopping him doing it would be the elitist knobheads that run most of these institutions.

the only thing stopping him would be a total lack of decent education, dedication, mental stability and the fact he simply isnt very smart. The fact you know some doctors doesnt change that.

[mickey1975]

I think Tyson is very smart, just not academically. At all.

[Boxerbeetle]

Yeah Tyson definitely has ‘street smarts’, but that isn’t usually sufficient for entry into medical school. Not that I think he even seriously wants to be a doctor anyway, we should all be used to his random statements by now.

[Wa1nuts]

I think Fury just says a lot of things to wind people up. He probably has no intention to try an be a doctor. I take 95% of what he says as being a wind up

[Rob3_142]

The point to this long story is, there is something out there for all of us. Fury is a boxer and that's all he can be. Tolman was destined for a career in supermarkets. If we try and be anything else its pointless and we wouldn't fit in, even if by some miracle we made it. Horses for courses and all that.

I'm not sure this is always the case. Okay some people just don't have what it takes to be a high flier, but to be more than those around you think you can be? There's always that chance.

I was told by my college tutor that I wasn't 'suitable' for university, so spent the next 4 years working in a factory stacking wet vegetable trays. Then when I was 22 I applied for university to do physiotherapy (I had some A levels, although not pulling up any trees). Rejected from every uni, so switched my attention to biological sciences - rejected, then a foundation degree in biological sciences - also rejected. Eventually I just rang them up and talked them round to giving me a chance.

Went through my years doing the foundation degree, then topped up for the complete degree, achieving the highest final project score.

Then turned my attention to research, spending 9 months not earning a penny in a local research lab. Eventually I managed to earn myself some funding for a PhD, mostly because I'd mastered the experiments and knew the set up like the back of my own hand. 6 years later, I can call myself a doctor.

My point is, I could have taken the word of my uni tutor as gospel, and still be working on the back of that machine. But I say you are always in control of your own destiny, and can dictate your own path.

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by the end of the week hell want to be something else

Yes, an astronaut probably.

[Coco]

If you have enough time, money and motivation you can be anything you want to be.
Look at the likes of Sadiq Khan, and he did it without money, son of immigrants from a council estate in Tooting, and now he is mayor of London.
If you listen to folk you tell you that you can't do stuff you never will.

[BitPlayer]

Tyson has ADHD I reckon

100%.

What's happened to his voice as well?

Probably true. I've heard that people with ADHD can hyperfocus, which from Manny Steward saying he trained harder than anyone else in camp, also sounds right.

[Sklar]

If you have enough time, money and motivation you can be anything you want to be.

No you can't.

[BitPlayer]

What is he burbling about, he's away with the fairies.

He's not going to stick 7 years of medical school.

Assuming he gets the 3 A stars at A level to get in. If he does, I’m pretty sure I can get him a place at my old Cambridge college.

Would liven up the Varsity boxing match.

I don't think it takes 3 A stars. Maybe for Oxbridge, but not everywhere. I actually gave a talk to medical students the other day.

People without stupidly good grades usually do another degree first, something like a biology one that's not nearly as hard.

[Coco]

If you have enough time, money and motivation you can be anything you want to be.

No you can't.

Such negativity will ruin your life!

[mickey1975]

Tyson has ADHD I reckon

100%.

What's happened to his voice as well?

Probably true. I've heard that people with ADHD can hyperfocus, which from Manny Steward saying he trained harder than anyone else in camp, also sounds right.

My boy has it. He does hyper focus, but if he’s not interested....,He will literally do nothing.

[rubberneck]

This thread has been one of the best in a long time

[Cyclops]

Yeah Tyson definitely has ‘street smarts’, but that isn’t usually sufficient for entry into medical school. Not that I think he even seriously wants to be a doctor anyway, we should all be used to his random statements by now.

How is he street smart? I'm pretty sure he was born in a mansion, never had a proper fight in his life, has no criminal record and wouldn't know an ounce from a kilo. He's a boxer and that's it, and one that's grown up with a sliver spoon in his mouth, no matter how hard his Dad and uncles are.

This thread is the biggest load of bollocks I've ever read.

Maybe he might be able to make it as health care assistant? Some of them are bloody brilliant. I couldn't see him go beyond that. You need 3 A-C's in GCSE English, Maths and Science to get into nursing (and some relevant A levels might help) before you do your nursing degree, so maybe with several years dedication he could become a nurse. But I doubt it.

[Sklar]

If you have enough time, money and motivation you can be anything you want to be.

No you can't.

Such negativity will ruin your life!

No it won't. I'm just being realistic.

Could a bloke with no legs and no arms beat Usain Bolt's 100m and 200m world records if he wanted to?

[leejonesjnr]

No you can't.

Such negativity will ruin your life!

No it won't. I'm just being realistic.

Could a bloke with no legs and no arms beat Usain Bolt's 100m and 200m world records if he wanted to?

Maybe someday. Peacock and Pistorius are early examples of what may become possible.
HOWEVER I am fully onboard with your point regarding Fury.

[banjo]

bullshit.
I know plenty of doctors who dont have 10 percent of fury's native wit. If fury can be dedicated enough to become a world champ , he could , with maturity , have the discipline it takes to get his degree. He might be a bit mad at times, but he is nobodies mug. If he really wanted to do it, he would, i've no doubt about that.

You must be on the wind-up with that post

Fury becoming a fully qualified doctor is about as likely as Jeremy Hunt becoming the undisputed lineal heavyweight champion of the world.

I went to a school, that until my first year had been a posh grammar/boarding school. They closed two Secondary Modern schools and then merged with the Grammar school. The mix between the posh kids and the kids from the town was messy. Especially when the travellers were introduced. About half the teachers from the grammar days stayed on and half transferred from the Secondary Modern's into the new flag-ship Comprehensive. The Grammar school teachers still insisted on wearing those old fashioned gowns, they also called you by your surname and would hit you every now and again (even though corporal punishment had pretty much been banned).

Anyway, we had this kid called Gareth Tolman. He was a right thick pudendum. His Dad wasn't around and he was on free dinners, never had the right bits of uniform and still wore those black plimsolls (with the weird circle grip things and a bit of elastic) when we did PE. He got bullied a fair bit, nothing physical, just being called an orphan and poor and all that.

He reckoned that his dad was a pilot in the RAF and that's why he wasn't around. Loads of people called him on it and lads that had gone to his infants school with him said that his dad had just fucked off and didn't have a job at all. All he wanted to do was be an RAF pilot.

By the time we were getting to the age where we had to pick subjects and all that, see the careers people etc. most lads had grown out of wanting to be jet pilots or train drivers etc. The posh kids that would have made the grade to get into the school when it was a grammar school, all wanted to be doctors and work with computers (the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron were all the rage) and all the normal kids were gearing up to work in one of the local factories or go into the infantry. Tolman was still on about being an RAF pilot. The old grammar teachers told him he was too stupid (literally) and that they wouldn't take him in their classes if he applied to take the subjects they taught. A few of the new style teachers were very encouraging, and told us all that if we worked hard, there was no reason why we couldn't be anything we wanted to be when we left school and Tolman used that as his basis of a tactical plan.

Eventually, the careers people and the head of year sat him down and pointed out he would need A-C in Maths, Physics and English as a minimum. That was an issue as he was in the bottom set for everything and was going to be restricted to getting grades E as a maximum. He wouldn't have it and said that he would work hard to achieve his dream of being an RAF pilot. They ended up they set him a really basic physics exam and he got about 4% on it and they refused to let him take it. They made him take combined sciences which was new at the time and pretty useless. Still, undeterred he was adamant he was going to be an RAF pilot. By now he's getting on everyone's tits and even I started bullying him and telling him he was a stupid pudendum who wouldn't even get in the RAF as a mechanic because he was too thick for that and too unfit for basic training.

We all did our exams and I got a job before my results came out and didn't go to the school to get my results, so I didn't see anyone and don't know what they did or how they got on. But, about three months later I saw Tolman wearing a grey store coat with the Iceland logo on it in the town centre. He had temporarily opted for a career in the trolley pushing business and I'm ashamed to say I pointed out that it was almost similar to flying Tornadoes, he said that it was still his plan and in fact he had an appointment in the RAF/ARMY Careers Office in a week or so.

I saw him again about two years later, he was still on trolleys, but also did shelves sometimes. Apparently, there had been some resistance by the Air Force to recruit Tolman as a pilot. Indeed there was resistance to recruit him for anything. He had been passed onto the Army and he had a vague plan that he would become a fighter pilot, via the well known route of joining the infantry, learning to fly helicopters and then transferring his skills to the cockpit of a tornado.
The issue he had was the army recruiting sergeant was a Welsh Guardsman called Andy Carter who detested anyone that wasn't white and wasn't supremely fit. He had a pull up bar screwed into his door frame and if anyone couldn't manage less than 20 pull ups he wouldn't have them in the Guards. Less than 10 and he wouldn't have them in the army. Not even the Green Jackets. Tolman had managed to reach the bar and that was about it. So, here he was building his upper body strength and stamina by pushing trolleys and stacking shelves, knowing that one day he could fulfil his dream of becoming an RAF pilot.

I literally didn't see him again for about 22 years. I bumped into him in a Morrisons. He had about nine kids with him, all as scruffy as he used to be and his wife was fat as eff and no oil painting, but I was just pleased to see that he had a family. I asked him if he ever made it into the air force and alas, he hadn't, but he was a Scout leader. He couldn't talk for long as he was technically working and about 5 minutes after I spoke to him I saw him getting bollocked by a 19 year old assistant manager (groceries) for effing up a display of sausages.

The point to this long story is, there is something out there for all of us. Fury is a boxer and that's all he can be. Tolman was destined for a career in supermarkets. If we try and be anything else its pointless and we wouldn't fit in, even if by some miracle we made it. Horses for courses and all that.

The majority of people who apply for pilot training will never get near a fast jet let alone pass the tests to fly one, you're talking high IQ's mixed with fitness and reactions which make a Formula One driver look sluggish. Sounds to me like a dreamer, tragic story really.

[fanman]

bloody funny thread!

also just read the transcript that landed fury in hot water a couple of years ago. some funny stuff in there, and frames his personality and behaviours even more so.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sports ... -Holt.html

[mickeyb]

He was always a bit of a tit, all be it a loveable tit. Then, in short order, he starts ranting about his invisible friend who lives in the sky, bottling out of owning his own opinions, and going on drug-fuelled benders. I'm guessing that he was in a pretty dark place during that whole period, so hopefully it's more a reflection on that than an accurate picture of who he really is.