I got insured on Tyson Fury's car while sparring Gypsy King and got a parking ticket – I left him to pay it
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David Adeleye with Tyson Fury
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Fury lent one of his cars to Adeleye to drive while in training camp
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He was first drafted before Fury knocked out
Adeleye spent so much time in Fury's Lancaster camp that he even got insured
And despite owing Fury a debt of gratitude for the training invitation - Adeleye hilariously admits to leaving the multimillionaire with a parking fine to pay.
He told SunSport: "I probably am still insured, to be honest. I ain't been there in a few years but I probably still am because we still talk.
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"It's so funny right because, I'll tell you a story, obviously I was insured in this car and I got a parking ticket.
"And I just left the ticket in the car. I was like, 'Tyson's got the f***ing money, mate. You can just pay for it.'
"So when I gave him back the car, he just saw the parking ticket. He didn't even bring it up to me - so he must have just paid for it.
"So I probably still owe him! But he'll be alright."
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Adeleye - who can switch from intimidating brute to friendly giant in the blink of an eye - has also sparred Anthony Joshua.
But he learnt more from observing what Fury and AJ did outside of the ring than he did when sharing it with them.
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He said: "You see how they prepare, you see how they deal with camps, deal with sparring partners and dealing with different things and how they take their nutrition and whatnot.
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"I'm a sponge. I'm observant. I'm not one of those people that just walk into the room not really know what's going on, any room I walk into, I kind of study and wanna know what's going on.
"So, yeah, I was just looking from a different sort of perspective."
Adeleye - with 13 knockouts in his 14 wins with just one loss - sparred the pair of British superstars in their primes.
But the Londoner - friends with both - refuses to split them - back then or now. He said: "They've both got different attributes, honestly.
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"They both do different things good, so honestly, I wouldn't know. I wish they fought back then though.
"So that way I would have been like, 'I know why he did this, or I know why he did that.'
"But obviously they haven't fought, so I think when they do fight, it'll probably be next year, then it'll be interesting to see because I feel like they're still very good fighters and yeah they lost but they lost the people at the top of the tree."
Joshua, 35, is plotting a comeback fight before the year ends having not returned since his September KO loss to Daniel Dubois, 27.
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Fury, 36,
But the division faces a changing of the guard with Usyk, Fury and AJ all coming to the closing stages of their careers.
It leaves the crop of young, hungry lions like Adeleye - who knocked out Jeamie Tshikeva in his last fight - waiting to pounce.
The former elite amateur champion - only beaten by Fabio Wardley - returns on August 16 in Saudi Arabia against Filip Hrgovic on DAZN PPV.
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And he warned: "This is my coming out fight.
"This is the fight that gets me up in the mix, gets my name involved with all these world title fights."
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Adeleye knocked out Jeamie Tshikeva in his last fight
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Filip Hrgovic faces Adeleye next
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