Alan Hubbard: Murray and Fury are different beasts but each love a good scrap

Alan Hubbard: Murray and Fury are different beasts but each love a good scrap

Two historic events of global significance at the weekend have left British sport punching the air.

First, Tyson Fury’s impudent acquisition of Wladimir Klitschko’s triple world heavyweight crowns seems to have "shook up the world" just as another underdog, Muhammad Ali, did when he upset all the odds to dethrone the so-called unbeatable ogre that was Sonny Liston half a century ago.

Then Britain's Andy Murray-led Davis Cup tennis squad defied the spectre of terrorism to claim the sport’s biggest team prize, one that had eluded the nation for over three quarters of a century.