5 Things every WWE fan needs to know about Tyson Fury

#3 Tyson Fury watched WWE as a child

Following his surprise appearance on the first episode of SmackDown on FOX, Tyson Fury took to Instagram to share some pictures from his night at STAPLES Center.

The boxer posed alongside his family with Vince McMahon, Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, Ric Flair, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan and The Rock, and he noted in the caption that he “grew up watching some of these guys”.

Fury is not known to name-check WWE legends in interviews in the same way that UFC's Conor McGregor has in the past, but it is obvious from his outlandish antics that he likes to take a sports-entertainment approach to the promotion of his fights.

To give one of many examples, we're talking about a man here who once dressed as Batman in a press conference before one of the biggest fights of his life! His use of catchphrases and nicknames is also up there with some of the best WWE Superstars of the last 20 years.

Ahead of his win over Otto Wallin last month, Fury wore a Lucha mask and branded himself El Rey de los Gitanos (aka The King of The Gypsies), as the fight took place in Las Vegas on Mexican Independence Day weekend.

Fury also likes to refer to Deontay Wilder as “the big dosser” – an informal British term for a tramp – and he even uses the insult in promotional adverts for BT Sport in the UK.