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Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and the best of British gypsy kings

Tyson Fury became the first gypsy world heavyweight champion with his unanimous points victory over Wladimir Klitschko in Germany on Saturday. The 27-year-old has now won world, European, British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles.

Fury, however, is not alone when it comes to gypsy champions. The Traveller and Romany Gypsy communities have a rich tradition of producing boxers. Here ESPN looks at some of the stand-out gypsy ring heroes.

Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders

The pair meet each other in a clash that has been dubbed as being for the traveller world title. Lee, who was brought up in Limerick after spending his early years in London, defends the WBO world middleweight title against Hatfield's unbeaten Saunders in Manchester on December 19. The fight will be first between travellers for a legitimate world title.

Irishman Lee won the title in December 2014 and is a cousin of Fury (their grandmothers were sisters). Saunders is proud of his Romany Gypsy heritage and races horse and carts along dual carriageways in Hertfordshire in his spare time.

"It is a huge fight for the Travelling community," Saunders said. "Andy's the first Traveller to win a world title. I'm the first to win a British title outright. There's a lot of talk about this fight in our community."

Gary Buckland

The 29-year-old, who lives on a caravan site in Cardiff, won the British super-featherweight title in 2011 and made two defences. He stepped up a division and was involved in two entertaining bouts with fellow Welshman Gavin Rees before retiring in September.

Willie Casey

Casey beat fellow Irishman Paul Hyland in only his 11th professional fight for the European super-bantamweight title. It earned him a fight with classy Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux a year later, in 2012, for the WBA interim title. Casey was blown away in a round by world No.1 Rigo and has not fought for over a year.

Matthew Barney

Hampshire-based Barney won the British super-middleweight title in 2003 and in 2005 took European champion Thomas Ulrich to points. The 41-year-old also went the distance with future world champion Carl Froch the same year.

Henry Wharton

Fighting out of Leeds, Wharton won Commonwealth and European super-middleweight titles but came up short in world title attempts in the 1990s. He was out-pointed by British greats Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank in 1994 and then Robin Reid in 1997.

Tony Sibson

The Leicester man was a British, Commonwealth and European middleweight champion who fought the best of his era. In 1981 he stopped fellow Briton -- and former world champion -- Alan Minter in three rounds to defend his European belt. In 1983 came Sibson's first of three world title shots when he travelled to America to last six rounds with 'Marvellous' Marvin Hagler for the WBC and WBA titles. Dennis Andries then stopped him in nine rounds for the WBC title in 1986 and two years later, in his final fight, Frank Tate stopped him in the 10th for the IBF version of the world title.

Johnny Frankham

Frankham defeated Olympic gold medallist Chris Finnegan for the British light-heavyweight title in 1975, and lost a rematch four months later.

George 'Digger' Stanley

The bantamweight is Britain's most successful gypsy boxer. He was born in a caravan in Kingston, south west London, in 1876 and went on to win British, European and world bantamweight titles early in the 20th century.

Stanley was world champion from 1905 to 1907, and later held the British version of the world title from 1909 to 1912. He beat Jimmy Walsh by a 15-round decision in Massachusetts, USA, in 1905 for what was claimed to be the world title but lost it two years later when he was disqualified for throwing a low blow against Al Delmont in Liverpool. History would repeat itself when he beat Joe Bowker for the British version of the world crown in 1910, only to lose it again two years later in a rematch with Charles Ledoux, who knocked him out. Stanley died in 1919, aged 43.

Jem Mace

In the days before boxing with gloves, Mace was one of the great bare-knuckle fighters. He was son of a Hungarian gypsy and a Norfolk cabinet-maker, and crossed the Atlantic to win the world heavyweight title in 1870, losing it a year later. He was the last Briton to win a world title without gloves.