There’s only 16 days left until Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk collide for a second time, live on DAZN Pay-Per-View.
To mark the huge occasion, DAZN News is doing a countdown to the fight with each number representing a significant moment in the lives and careers of the fighters involved.
Here, we go back 16 years to Tyson Fury’s professional debut.
Tyson Fury had big aspirations as an amateur, but his path was constantly blocked by David Price, who defeated Fury in 2006.
Despite representing his country on several occasions, Fury could not find his way to the big tournaments and instead, a professional debut beckoned at the age of 20.
Appearing on one of the UK’s biggest shows of 2008, Fury was to receive excellent exposure as he featured on the undercard of Carl Froch vs. Jean Pascal.
The Nottingham man was about to become world champion for the first time and with the action set to be broadcast on terrestrial TV, it was sure to attract a huge audience.
Hoping to piggyback off that attention was Tyson Fury, who had recently put pen to paper with Mick Hennessy, the man who had guided Froch to this point.
The night would eventually belong to Froch who would defeat Pacal in a classic encounter, but these were the type of nights that Fury was dreaming of headlining one day.
Opposing him that night, December 6, 2008, would be Béla Gyöngyösi, a Hungarian tough man with more losses than wins.
Fury was not there to hang around and he made a winning start to his professional career as he stopped Gyöngyösi in the opening session.
The win was a platform for Fury to push on and build his reputation in the professional ranks and he was back in action just one month later when he beat Marcel Zeller in Wigan.
Seven years after his professional debut, Fury would travel to Germany to become world champion with a memorable away day victory over Wladimir Klitschko.
It’s uncertain how many people would have expected that when Fury made his professional bow, but it is almost guaranteed that Fury knew what lay ahead the night he made his debut on a Froch undercard.
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Usyk vs. Fury 2 countdown calendar
- Day 17 - Usyk switches to a different sport
- Day 18 - A young Tyson Fury looks to become a man against David Price
- Day 19 - Usyk becomes heavyweight king by outclassing Anthony Joshua
- Day 20 - A classic Fury battle from 2020
- Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury 2 fight guide
- Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury 2 undercard guide