Back in November 2025 my friend Sam from Yuth Sportsgear and Thai-T-shirt factory invited me to go to an WBC conference event, I had a small both there and managed to speak to a few stars of boxing yor, the one the stood out the most was Roberto Duran, I sat with him for over an hour as he waited to go to the airpot to fly back to Panama for Christmas. I bought him and his 2 Sons a coffee. I was impressed with Sam hob nobbing with all the big cheeses of the boxing world and also make a bespoke pair of shoes for the world smallest boxer from Austrila Jame the Giant.
fast forward a month or so and me and Sam bought out a small shoe factory and moved all teh machine to Pattaya to be next door to his factory, then I was invited down to Fraziors sports bar where I measured up Tyson Fury and Joseph Parker. Tyson selected Chelsea boots for his first order.
and so begins the photpgraphic parh to bespoke boot perfection below.
Tyson has Hammer toes and so I have removed some leather from the midsole so less space need to be above.
This part is called crimping the vamp, Its done by hand when the leather is expensive
Starting to take shape on the last.
Testing the colours, at this point Im not sure what is best.
This is the black version
Now the welt is being attached.
The heel black is made and attached
That's one side done, we went with the brown, remember it requires 2 crocodile skins to make a pair
I predicted that Tyson would not like a full leather sole due to the slippage and so we used a rubber patch and then nailed in TF
And here he is the Man himself.. Allan Donnelly with Tyson Fury lol. No, What a great guy indeed! I knew he would be a funny friendly bloke.
One more viw ofthe bespoke last
Update, I bought tickets to see his fight in Pattaya, treated myself to the front row, as That aint ever going to happen again, The fight was alright I guess I knew what to expect, I was thing 6 rounds, Wach failed to come out for the 8th. The other fights on the car were pretty much terrible, Noboday was getting a fee or a very small fee and so many of the fighters just quite when they wanted an out. the final fight lasted 28 seconds and the german fighter took the biggest hiT ive ever soon.
We ended up making 2 more pairs for Tyson. a black crocodile derby and a goat skin oxford.
The goat skin is a sutle way of say Greatest of all time. Here they are below
The last was created for a shoe that we addapted and made the chelsea boots on then we went back and made the shoes
This is the goat skin, We made these first as Tyson mentioned he likes the countryside but I helf off with these and made the more flamboynt Chelsea boots.
Thank you for reading the blog regarding Tyson Furys crocodile boot order. These were bespoke order I measured him up in Pattaya
Mr Tyson Fury being measured for shoes in fraser's sports bar
Mr Joseph Parker was measured next, ill create another blg post for him.
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