I got insured on Tyson Fury's car while sparring Gypsy King and got a parking ticket – I left him to pay it
Adeleye - once tipped as the future of the heavyweight division by Fury - became one of the Gypsy King's favourite go-to sparring partners.
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He was first drafted before Fury knocked out Deontay Wilder in 2020 - and became part of his Morecambe HQ furniture soon after.
Adeleye spent so much time in Fury's Lancaster camp that he even got insured on one of the two-time champion's many motors.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
"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.
"They both do different things good, so honestly, I wouldn't know. I wish they fought back then though.
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.'
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"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.
Fury, 36, meanwhile also announced he will be back in 2026 having retired in January off the back of two losses to Oleksandr Usyk, 38.
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.
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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