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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Donagh Corby

Tommy Fury and Jake Paul had secret gym run-in FIVE years before Saudi fight

Tommy Fury and Jake Paul have differing accounts of their first meeting - a secret gym session before either man had fought as a professional boxer.

By now, everybody in boxing knows the story of the two star fighters' infamous years-long feud, with two fight cancellations, whether they want to or not. But it is less widely known that Paul and Fury met three years before their first ever back-and-forth on social media, and almost five years before they would step in the ring together.

At the time, Fury was a year away from becoming a superstar through Love Island, and was simply Tyson Fury's brother who was awaiting his professional debut. The 'Gypsy King' had yet to win back the heavyweight title, and was in the midst of a sensational comeback that would lead him to his second world title at the end of the year against Deontay Wilder.

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