Tyson Fury backed for bare-knuckle success by Lucas Browne ahead of world title fight

EXCLUSIVE: Lucas Browne has given a fascinating insight into sparring Tyson Fury.

On Saturday evening, at BKB 48, ‘Big Daddy’ will go to war with Cuban monster, Gustavo Trujillo, in a world heavyweight title fight that looks destined to excite.

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Lucas Browne had a brutal spar with Tyson Fury

Lucas Browne is a fascinating sportsman. The former nightclub bouncer, who took up boxing at 30 and incredibly conquered the sport at 36 by knocking out Ruslan Chagaev to claim the WBA world title, looks nothing short of terrifying. However, while his tattoos and thunderous punching power could fool you, he’s a warm character, renowned for his sense of humour, joking during his chat with Sporf that he one day dreams of recording an album with Boyz II Men. And having made it to the top 50 of Australian Idol, that ambition isn’t quite as crazy as it might initially seem.

Therefore, with such a big personality, it comes as no major surprise that he gets on like a house on fire with Tyson Fury, with the pair once sharing a hilarious sparring session that quickly descended into chaos.

The Australian chuckled: “Luckily, I had headgear on. I was one week out from the Dillian Whyte fight, and he threw a spinning back elbow at me. It landed, I went, ‘What are you doing’? He’s a lovely fella though.”

Having come from a long line of bare-knuckle fighters, including Bartley Gorman, Fury would likely excel if he were to ever compete without the gloves. And having exchanged leather with the former unified champion, Browne knows exactly what the slick operator is capable of.

The 46-year-old explained: “His younger brother came with him, and the night before, he’d had a bare-knuckle fight, and he didn’t have a mark on him. Fury is hard [to beat] because he’s long. Even from a boxing point of view, he’s very tough to fight because he fights like he’s 6ft, but he’s 6ft9.”

Lucas Browne was terrified ahead of his BKB debut

Browne has flown around the world, going head-to-head with some of the scariest competitors on the planet without a care in the world. But even he was unsettled ahead of his first brutal brawl inside the trigon, in which he stopped Corey Harrison after inflicting a horrifying cut on the Englishman’s head.

The knockout artist confessed: “I’ll be honest, it was very nerve-wracking. I finally had that nervousness and anxiousness that I haven’t had for years in the boxing. It’s a real fight. It’s knuckles. It made me move more and be more assertive and everything else because it was real.”

With his debut out of the way, Browne is now ready to cement his legacy in stone. With a packed crowd inside the Charles F. Dodge Center in Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA, watching, the heavy-handed fighter will aim to conquer a second sport, almost a decade after his first.

He enthused: “People forget that I’ve also done MMA and fought Daniel Cormier for a world title. So, now that’s three world title fights in three different disciplines. I’m so excited. I’ve done the boxing, and now I’m ready for this. Here we are for a world title.”

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