Tyson Fury’s coach and legendary boxing mentor who helped turn him into world champion dies aged 85

THE BOXING manager who helped crook Tyson Fury into ‘The Facebreaker’ has died.

Dave Stacey, who has died aged 85, was the archetypal manager to thatch young Fury the boxing basics astatine Torbay Amateur Boxing Club, successful Devon.

The seasoned was credited with helping the aboriginal champion pick-up the basics during agelong stints erstwhile helium stayed with household successful the South West.

It helped cement the endowment that saw him nicknamed "The Facebreaker" aft helium shattered an opponent's jaw and oculus socket, arsenic an amateur.

Mike Reardon, the club’s chairman, said Mr Stacey had been the heavyweight’s archetypal coach.

He said: “Tyson would person taken portion successful radical sessions for beginners wherever they larn the basics similar stance and however to punch.

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“We person a batch of boys and girls coming and going astatine the gym and it’s intolerable to retrieve them all, but I deliberation Dave ever remembered Tyson due to the fact that of his size. He was gangly for a lad his age.”

Fury has said that aft his parents separated helium spent a batch of clip with an auntie and uncle successful Torquay.

He said successful an aboriginal interview: "They helped maine larn however to work and write. I went swimming and surfing. The archetypal gym I went to was successful Torquay.

“My dada would clasp up his hands and accidental “one two,” but that was all. He ne'er said helium wanted maine to container oregon took maine to the gym.

"He didn’t adjacent cognize erstwhile I archetypal started going to the gym.”

The gym wherever Fury trained was astatine a erstwhile religion and Stacey was the caput manager there.

Fury went connected to articulation Jimmy Egans’s Amateur Boxing Club successful Manchester and had his archetypal amateur bout for them erstwhile helium was 16 years old, successful March, 2005.

There was a riot aft his 2nd amateur bout successful Hinckley, Leicestershire, 2 months later.

Dave’s girl Nicole led tributes, saying: "First and foremost, helium was a existent household antheral and was ever precise arrogant to archer different radical that helium felt similar the luckiest antheral successful the satellite to beryllium a hubby and begetter and we truly felt that love.

"He was a precise loyal idiosyncratic and would bash perfectly thing for us. People would ever picture him arsenic a existent quality and helium was unashamedly himself.

“He had the quality to speech to anyone and enactment them astatine ease.

"If determination was a setback of immoderate benignant helium wouldn't dwell connected it, helium would archer radical however helium felt, prime himself up and instrumentality the situation on. I accidental that's the boxing mentality and focus."