Great Irish

A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every year but this sliver of choppy brine, just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, represents much more than a conductor of goods and people.

As he stood at the center of the ring after just defeating Wladimir Klitschko, Tyson Fury knew his dream, and destiny had finally been fulfilled, he was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. In Tyson Fury we will follow the Gypsy King’s path from his Irish Traveller roots, through being snubbed for a chance at Olympic glory and through the difficult trials and tribulations that he was forced to overcome to eventually claim the belt he desired his whole life.