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Hillman Imp wrote:No conjecture, gossip, rumour, badly researched online ‘articles’ FACTS from someone who knew John (we had the same manager at one point) and had the misfortune to spend time with him on many occasions.

Real Name:

The family name is actually PARTRIDGE not Fury.

Bare Knuckle ‘Career’:

Clearly these events are not recorded but as far as I know (and I’ve confirmed this with another Fury cohort) John was known to have a grand total of TWO organised bare knuckle fights, one was broken up by the Police, in the other both Fury and his opponent shook hands and called it a draw as they were both knackered.

Boxing Career:

NEVER scored a stoppage or a knockdown.

Beaten by a part time Rugby player.

Was ‘old manned’ in a Central Area title fight by the ancient cokehead Neil Malpass.

Was rendered unconscious for almost ten minutes by the relatively light hitting Akinwande.

He took a four year break after the Akinwande loss then made a comeback and took on Steve Garber (someone he’d previously beaten) after a decent first round he was systematically outboxed for two rounds before throwing his arms up in surrender and returning to his corner.

Sparring Stories:

He came over to John Celebanski’s gym in Bradford to spar with the aforementioned Steve Garber (this was after their first fight, before the second) Steve suffered a badly cut lower lip after two rounds and curtailed the sparring. MIDDLEWEIGHT Frank Grant asked if he could do a few rounds with Fury. Fury most insulted that a mere Middleweight would dare spar with him went in heavy, the sparring was ‘heated’ to say the least and Frank absolutely battered Fury for two rounds.

In the changing room Fury starts muttering about ‘not being fit/thought he was sparring a heavy/wife had a ‘babby’ due/he’d had a long drive from Haslingden etc etc’ Grant told him to ‘shut his mouth’ (or similar) Fury makes some noise about ‘taking it outside’

You didn’t say that to Frank Grant.

Fury leaves the building Grant follows him outside stripped to the waist in the pouring rain and starts screaming at Fury to fight him, Fury gets in his van muttering about being knackered from the sparring, once again evoking his heavily pregnant wife and the impending ‘babby’, Grant kicks the van door tries to open it, Fury drives off.

I didn’t see this sadly BUT I do have it on good authority from numerous people who witnessed it, Fury went to Leeds to spar with Tom Collins and Carl Gaffney, LIGHTHEAVY Collins knocked him clean out wearing 16oz gloves.

By way of conclusion Gypsy John Partridge (it’s true I swear) is a liar, fantasist, bully and NOTHING like as hard as he would have you believe.

If Fat Mick has any sense, he’ll keep John well away from press conferences, cameras, interviews etc.

mickey1975 wrote:To support Fury is no more being a traveller groupie than AJ fans being wannabe black men.

mickey1975 wrote:To support Fury is no more being a traveller groupie than AJ fans being wannabe black men.

lillywhite14 wrote:

Hillman Imp wrote:No conjecture, gossip, rumour, badly researched online ‘articles’ FACTS from someone who knew John (we had the same manager at one point) and had the misfortune to spend time with him on many occasions.

Real Name:

The family name is actually PARTRIDGE not Fury.

Bare Knuckle ‘Career’:

Clearly these events are not recorded but as far as I know (and I’ve confirmed this with another Fury cohort) John was known to have a grand total of TWO organised bare knuckle fights, one was broken up by the Police, in the other both Fury and his opponent shook hands and called it a draw as they were both knackered.

Boxing Career:

NEVER scored a stoppage or a knockdown.

Beaten by a part time Rugby player.

Was ‘old manned’ in a Central Area title fight by the ancient cokehead Neil Malpass.

Was rendered unconscious for almost ten minutes by the relatively light hitting Akinwande.

He took a four year break after the Akinwande loss then made a comeback and took on Steve Garber (someone he’d previously beaten) after a decent first round he was systematically outboxed for two rounds before throwing his arms up in surrender and returning to his corner.

Sparring Stories:

He came over to John Celebanski’s gym in Bradford to spar with the aforementioned Steve Garber (this was after their first fight, before the second) Steve suffered a badly cut lower lip after two rounds and curtailed the sparring. MIDDLEWEIGHT Frank Grant asked if he could do a few rounds with Fury. Fury most insulted that a mere Middleweight would dare spar with him went in heavy, the sparring was ‘heated’ to say the least and Frank absolutely battered Fury for two rounds.

In the changing room Fury starts muttering about ‘not being fit/thought he was sparring a heavy/wife had a ‘babby’ due/he’d had a long drive from Haslingden etc etc’ Grant told him to ‘shut his mouth’ (or similar) Fury makes some noise about ‘taking it outside’

You didn’t say that to Frank Grant.

Fury leaves the building Grant follows him outside stripped to the waist in the pouring rain and starts screaming at Fury to fight him, Fury gets in his van muttering about being knackered from the sparring, once again evoking his heavily pregnant wife and the impending ‘babby’, Grant kicks the van door tries to open it, Fury drives off.

I didn’t see this sadly BUT I do have it on good authority from numerous people who witnessed it, Fury went to Leeds to spar with Tom Collins and Carl Gaffney, LIGHTHEAVY Collins knocked him clean out wearing 16oz gloves.

By way of conclusion Gypsy John Partridge (it’s true I swear) is a liar, fantasist, bully and NOTHING like as hard as he would have you believe.

If Fat Mick has any sense, he’ll keep John well away from press conferences, cameras, interviews etc.

You do realise you have reduced Henry to a sniffling, emotional wreck with this new information? I'm actually worried for our resident travelling groupies safety after he reads this. It's worse than the moment we all realised Santa wasn't real

HomicideHenry wrote:

If I ever decide to do radio shows again, and am lucky (or fortunate) enough to talk to Peter and John themselves and address some of these things, I will do so.

mickey1975 wrote:To support Fury is no more being a traveller groupie than AJ fans being wannabe black men.

magwitch wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:Frank Grant was a heavy duty guy in the mold of Dillian Whyte. He had some "team".... I remember a nightclub in Leeds, Casa Loco, where Frank's boys ruled the roost. Funny old club, open midnight-9.00am and didn't sell alcohol. Airport style security on the door.

what did it sell?

nitro5912 wrote:

mickey1975 wrote:To support Fury is no more being a traveller groupie than AJ fans being wannabe black men.

cant you just like both of them???

Im not tysons biggest fan but the away he dealt with wlad(no matter how poor) made me like him a little more.

I like AJ but cant stand the hearn guff that goes with it.

Fat Git wrote:I met Frank Grant once and he was an absolute gentleman but for sure, he would be different if I offered him out.

bripez wrote:I didn't know the fury / Partridge thing.

What then is Tyson Furys real name - I am sure I read a while ago that "Tyson" was a nickname and not his proper name, if his surname isn't even Fury then who is he ?


Henry - you sound like the most gullible person I have ever heard of (all this man of honour, never hurt anybody innocent, had over 1,000 fights undefeated nonsense).

I certainly hope you don't get a knock on the door from somebody saying that the were driving past your house and they wanted to let you know out of the goodness of their heart that you may have a lose tile on your roof, and as luck would have it they just happen to have their ladder with them and they would be willing to take a look at it for you ......

mercman wrote:

Hillman Imp wrote:Talking of Neil Malpass, here's another one of his old opponents.



Guess who??

And in his prime...

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Stevieb8006 wrote:

bripez wrote:I didn't know the fury / Partridge thing.

What then is Tyson Furys real name - I am sure I read a while ago that "Tyson" was a nickname and not his proper name, if his surname isn't even Fury then who is he ?


Henry - you sound like the most gullible person I have ever heard of (all this man of honour, never hurt anybody innocent, had over 1,000 fights undefeated nonsense).

I certainly hope you don't get a knock on the door from somebody saying that the were driving past your house and they wanted to let you know out of the goodness of their heart that you may have a lose tile on your roof, and as luck would have it they just happen to have their ladder with them and they would be willing to take a look at it for you ......

His name is luke

bripez wrote:

Stevieb8006 wrote:

bripez wrote:I didn't know the fury / Partridge thing.

What then is Tyson Furys real name - I am sure I read a while ago that "Tyson" was a nickname and not his proper name, if his surname isn't even Fury then who is he ?


Henry - you sound like the most gullible person I have ever heard of (all this man of honour, never hurt anybody innocent, had over 1,000 fights undefeated nonsense).

I certainly hope you don't get a knock on the door from somebody saying that the were driving past your house and they wanted to let you know out of the goodness of their heart that you may have a lose tile on your roof, and as luck would have it they just happen to have their ladder with them and they would be willing to take a look at it for you ......

His name is luke

Tyson Fury is really Luke Partridge ?

bripez wrote:I didn't know the fury / Partridge thing.

What then is Tyson Furys real name - I am sure I read a while ago that "Tyson" was a nickname and not his proper name, if his surname isn't even Fury then who is he ?


Henry - you sound like the most gullible person I have ever heard of (all this man of honour, never hurt anybody innocent, had over 1,000 fights undefeated nonsense).

I certainly hope you don't get a knock on the door from somebody saying that the were driving past your house and they wanted to let you know out of the goodness of their heart that you may have a lose tile on your roof, and as luck would have it they just happen to have their ladder with them and they would be willing to take a look at it for you ......

expe wrote:

bripez wrote:I didn't know the fury / Partridge thing.

What then is Tyson Furys real name - I am sure I read a while ago that "Tyson" was a nickname and not his proper name, if his surname isn't even Fury then who is he ?


Henry - you sound like the most gullible person I have ever heard of (all this man of honour, never hurt anybody innocent, had over 1,000 fights undefeated nonsense).

I certainly hope you don't get a knock on the door from somebody saying that the were driving past your house and they wanted to let you know out of the goodness of their heart that you may have a lose tile on your roof, and as luck would have it they just happen to have their ladder with them and they would be willing to take a look at it for you ......

That's because it isn't true.

Hillman Imp, aka Pigg Wilson.

Hillman Imp wrote:

palooka wrote:Then this is by far the most sophisticated incarnation of Pigg, if he keeps on improving like this it'll be like Skynet on the Terminator films.

Help me, I'm lost here who or what is Pigg Wilson (why 2 x G) is this some 'in joke' ?

As for Fury's surname he was managed by the late Tommy Miller, I once made the comment to Tommy's son ('Young Tommy') that Fury was an unlikely surname (I think I said it sounded like a WWF wrestler) he told me and I've had it confirmed by others that the family's name was originally Partridge.

Give me some credit I was going to make up nonsense to ridicule the Fury's I could up with something better than him having a funny surname.

milpool wrote:Youth Hosteling with Luke Partridge.

Hillman Imp wrote:

palooka wrote:Then this is by far the most sophisticated incarnation of Pigg, if he keeps on improving like this it'll be like Skynet on the Terminator films.

Help me, I'm lost here who or what is Pigg Wilson (why 2 x G) is this some 'in joke' ?

As for Fury's surname he was managed by the late Tommy Miller, I once made the comment to Tommy's son ('Young Tommy') that Fury was an unlikely surname (I think I said it sounded like a WWF wrestler) he told me and I've had it confirmed by others that the family's name was originally Partridge.

Give me some credit I was going to make up nonsense to ridicule the Fury's I could up with something better than him having a funny surname.