Why do people call Tyson Fury Luke?

TYSON FURY has one of the meanest sounding names in world boxing today, and he's also one of the best fighters in the sport.

Fury has ignited rivalries with fellow Brits Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte in recent years, and both have used the same piece of information against him in verbal sparring.

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Joshua and Whyte have called Fury 'Luke', with boxing fans now cottoning on to the mutual jibe.

Ahead of Fury's clash with Derek Chisora this weekend, the nickname is bound to rear its head once again.

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Why do people call Tyson Fury 'Luke'?

Well, both Joshua and Whyte believe Fury's actual first name to be Luke.

Luke is actually Fury's middle name, as listed on Companies House, Boxrec and Wikipedia.

But Whyte thinks otherwise, as he told SunSport in an exclusive interview last year.

"My real name is Dillian. I know his real name is Luke," Whyte told SunSport last year. "He changed it to Tyson to make himself sound harder.

"People can have a little look around on the internet and see for themselves.

“In boxing, the name Tyson is a lot more sellable than Luke.

“A lot of what Tyson does and says is a game, you can never take anything he says seriously or at face value.

“He might say he wants to fight me sometimes but how can you trust a man who doesn’t even use his own name?”

Joshua then went ahead and used the same jab against Fury on Twitter last year when the pair went back and forth over their fallen-through heavyweight showdown.

"If there was an arbitration going on, why announce to the world we are fighting!" he wrote.

"The fight was signed! UNDISPUTED. Bare knuckle? You’re a good kid, don’t play with me Luke! I’ll slap your bald head & you’ll do nothing! Waste man."

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