World Boxing Champion Visits Mercy Centre
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June 21, 2023The GYPSY KING TYSON FUREY – World Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the entire world – stopped by to say ‘hello,’ as great boxers do.
The folks who alerted the Champ and his team about us were (as you would imagine) the owner/managers of the two Irish Pubs in town: Scruffy Murphy’s and the other pub down the street, the Blarney Stone.
No, the Champ did not stop for ‘a pint & a pie’ at the pubs. Really. But their public relations folks brought him to our Mercy Centre to visit our kids.
He visited our kindergarten, smiled for pictures, visited the nearby slums. Said it all reminded him of his younger days when he, too, was poor and destitute. That folks like us at Mercy Centre ‘helped him along the way.’
He is nearly seven feet tall and total muscle; the largest and most powerful man I have ever met; yet so gentle and graceful.
The smallest of the kids loved him. None were afraid of his size and strength. No crying, all laughed and giggled as little kids are supposed to do.
(Fr. Joe is stationed in Thailand.)
