Following two back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk, two-time heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury retired from the sport of boxing.
Fury made the announcement in January.
“Hi everybody, I’m going to make this short and sweet. I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing, it has been a blast, I’ve loved every single minute of it and I’m going to end with this; Dick Turpin wore a mask.”
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Though Fury has made similar announcements in the past, those around him seem to believe this time it may be for good. That is despite him stating as recently as October 2024 that he will fight ‘until 50’ to make as much money as possible.
“My goal is to make as much money as possible and to do that I’ve got to have as many fights as I can. Until the wheels fall off this bitch. Until I’m 50-years-old. Until I’m tripled over on a stick walking down the street like that. That’s how I’ll be. Do you know why? That’s how all the greats fighters went out. All of them.”
‘The Gypsy King’, 36, has also been open about needing to box in order to keep his mental health in check – the reason he has ended his previous retirements early.
Despite that, Fury’s longtime promoter Frank Warren told DAZN that his former charge is in ‘a good place’ after hanging up the gloves.
“At the moment, it’s false [that he will fight again]. I say that genuinely. Tyson is a very unique guy and this is how it is. I’ve spoken to him a couple of times. I’ve not bothered him and I’ve certainly not spoke to him about fighting again. If he does, that will be his choice.
He’s a very, very wealthy guy. He doesn’t need financially to fight. If he does fight it will be because he’s got a fighting heart … For me, thats gonna be the thing. Can he walk away from the sport? He says he has and, at this moment in time, he’s said to me he’s really in a good place and he’s very happy. That for me is very important.”
Should Fury return, the general consensus is that it will be for a battle of Britain against Anthony Joshua.
