The respective celebrations certainly reflected the diversity of British sport: the Union Jack-waving fans in Ghent were distinctly middle class whereas collars could not have been bluer in Dusseldorf where a Romany ring invasion capped one of the biggest upsets heavyweight boxing has experienced.

Fury, the new Gypsy King of the Ring promises he will be the most charismatic heavyweight champion since Ali himself. But will he ever approach anything like Ali’s universal popularity, or even that at home of another former British world heavyweight champion, Frank Bruno? Or the still adored but sadly departed Sir Henry Cooper.

That is up to Fury himself.

Perhaps he should take a leaf out of the book of the fellow Brit who inspired GB’s pulsating conquest of Belgium in the Davis Cup final.

On the face of it the only similarity between Fury and Murray is that both achieved their respective successes on foreign soil and are expectant fathers. But there is one common denominator in that both love a good scrap.

However there was a time when we never took to Murray - at least, south of the border. He was simply that charmless, surly Scot. A perennial Nearly Man. Then he won Olympic gold and Wimbledon, lightened up and showed he had a much warmer and more endearing side to his persona, even a sense of humour.

Now Britain loves him. He’s a national icon - Britain’s greatest-ever sports figure, according to some, though personally I think that’s debatable.

So is whether the worryingly unpredictable Fury, who admits he has schizophrenic tendencies, will ever be held in similar esteem. Not that he appears to care two hoots. He ‘s the Millwall of boxing: if we don’t like him, he doesn’t care.

Even so, he has a responsibility as a world champion so so he must clean up his act and convince us that there’s a decent bloke behind ultra-brash facade.

So now is the time to live up to his name, scrap the bullshine and show the world, particularly America how good a boxer he can be.

We need more Tyson and less Fury.

He well beat Klitschko, who oddly was never at the races in what, to be frank, was one of the worst heavyweight title fights I have witnessed. Now his next battle is to really win over the British public.

He has never had a massive home following, perhaps because of his Jekyll and Hyde-type personality and often outlandish opinions expressed loudly and sometimes with unacceptable profanity.

Yet he can be Mr Nice Guy when the mood takes him and now he has genuine status in the fight game he must portray himself more as a champion, a clean-living deeply religious family man who spurns the celebrity lifestyle, and less as a clown.

Former Olympic world champion Lennox Lewis is among those who believe he must modify his behaviour to gain total acceptance. ”Now he’s champion he has to behave himself a little bit more because there are a lot of kids and people looking up to him,” he says.

No-one is asking Fury to totally change the way he is - not that he would anyway. But what he must do is curb some of more outrageous behaviour that invoked the opprobrium of the media and the punitive wrath of the Board of Control.

As I said, this was far from the greatest-ever heavyweight title fight. It was scrappy, untidy and more miss than hit. But in the circumstances Fury fought intelligently to frustrate a venerable but uncharacteristically vulnerable champion, switch-hitting and jabbing sufficiently to leave Klitschko bloodied and bemused.

Few thought Fury would get a decision in Germany, where judges have been notoriously ungenerous to visiting fighters. But he did, and good luck to him. At least its shows the game is straight.

He is in the big-money league now, of course. It looks likely there will be a return with Klitschko, and my understanding is that the return clause stipulates that any rematch has to be in Germany.

But at least he’ll get the thick end of the purse this time. By then, clueless Klitschko, whose creaking legs could only transport him further into negativity, will have passed his 40th birthday and unless he can construct a more positive Plan B to counter Fury’s unpredictability the probability is that he will lose to him again, perhaps even more comprehensively.

Once the receipts are finally totted up from the Sky Box Office bookings - at £16.95 ($25.54/€24.05) a throw - together with his share of the purse from the 55,000 gate in Dusseldorf, Tyson Fury could be richer by some £4 million/$6 million/€5.62 million). Now there is with the prospect of at least doubling that in the spring of next year should the vanquished Wladimir elect to invoke the contracted return clause following the shock surrender of his WBA, WBO and IBF belts.

Over the years Klitschko has earned approaching £25 million ($37.6 million/€35.4 million) but Fury is now the fortune-hunter with the golden gloves.

Further down the line is the prospect of £10 million ($15 million/€14.19 million) fight with the also undefeated WBC champion Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas. This would see the first Traveller ever to win a world title really hit the jackpot.

Wilder, aka. The Bronze Bomber from the Beijing Olympics, has made it clear that he wants Fury and fight between them would provide the heavyweight division its first unified champion since Lewis.

Another massive seven-figure earner would be an all-British world title fight with Anthony Joshua when the unbeaten Olympic champion has  graduated to contender status, or maybe against ever-charismatic come-back kid David Haye, whom he was twice due to meet before injuries to the Hayemaker intervened. Either would pack Wembley.

"We now have a crazy guy with the belts,” says Haye. “ It might be negative but it makes you laugh and it's better than being bored to tears by Klitschko."I would like my opportunity to work my way up the rankings and have a crack at him.”

Fury insists this will never happen because of his dislike of Haye, but money always has the last word in boxing.

Joshua also would be keen to take on Fury if the opportunity arose in 2016. “I believe I can beat anyone, so I can beat Tyson Fury,” he says. “If the opportunity presents itself and it was the right opportunity, we would definitely take the fight.”

The 26-year-old Olympic champion admits the public’s appetite for a bout with Fury could make it happen sooner rather than later.

Joshua, who faces unbeaten Dillian Whyte, who  beat him as an amateur, at London’s O2 Arena on 12 December.is looking to extend his perfect professional record in his 15th fight.

Fury’s out-of-the-blue victory means that boxing in Great Britain has rarely been in a healthier state with the roll call of home-grown world champions now totaling 11.

Terry Flanagan, Liam Smith, Jamie McDonnell, Scott Quigg, Carl Frampton, James DeGale, Kell Brook, Lee Selby, Anthony Crolla, Lee Haskins and now Fury compromise the astonishing hit parade of Brits who hold various versions of world titles.

It is a fantastic record no other sport can match, and has its foundation in the Lottery-funded GB amateur set-up in Sheffield which began to blossom after Amir Khan’s solitary Olympic silver in  Athens, via James DeGale’s gold in Beijing and those acquired by Joshua and Luke Campbell at London 2012.

There have been bagloads of medals at major international tournaments leading to the current production line of top talent now burgeoning among the pros.

Just like Tyson Fury, the sport is boxing clever.