Having initially suggested he would only fight twice more, Tyson Fury now believes he can keep going until he is 40.
Tyson Fury
Tyson Fury has backtracked on his initial retirement plans and the world heavyweight champion is now planning to fight until he is 40.
The 31-year-old has two fights remaining on his current contract and had previously spoken of his desire to walk away from boxing at the conclusion of that deal to spend more time with his family.
Having stopped Deontay Wilder to win the WBC title in February, Fury was set to fight the American for a third time this year before the coronavirus pandemic put boxing on hold.
And now, with talk of a unification bout against fellow Briton Anthony Joshua continuing to gain traction, Fury has suggested he is not hanging up his gloves any time soon.
“I’m going to fight on ’til I’m 40 years old,” he told ESPN.
“I’ve been thinking about it, and there isn’t much else to do anyways. So yeah, I may as well keep fighting.
“I don’t see anyone out there that can challenge me anyway. I just flattened the best one out there, the toughest opponent out there is Deontay Wilder, and we all saw what happened to him the last time out.”
Fury has fought 31 times as a professional, winning 30 of those fights and drawing just once, in his initial bout with Wilder.
Tyson Fury is not a champion in the eyes of Deontay Wilder, who insists he did not show the best of himself in his defeat in February.
Deontay Wilder (left) during his defeat to Tyson Fury.
Deontay Wilder does not see Tyson Fury as a champion, despite the Briton’s convincing triumph in the most recent installment of the heavyweight rivalry.
After a controversial draw in their first match in 2018, Fury defeated Wilder by technical knockout in the seventh round in Las Vegas on February 22. A third bout is scheduled to take place later in 2020, though the ongoing coronavirus pandemic – which has caused the postponement of sporting events across the globe – may see the fight pushed back.
Though Fury now possesses the WBC heavyweight belt, Wilder insists his opponent is no champion just yet. “You don’t go backwards, you move forwards, and that night, I wasn’t myself,” Wilder said in an interview on the PBC podcast.
“There’s a lot of things I can’t say. We can only get stronger and learn from the situation and get better.
‘One more fight yet’
“In my eyes, I don’t see Fury as a champion. It’s still going. He ain’t the champion yet. We still got one more fight left. Everything that happened, it happened the last 15 minutes into the fight. There were a lot of things that went on.
“There are a lot of things that I don’t even want to talk about at this moment in time. I’m still reflecting on certain things. And I can’t believe the things that happened, happened to me at that point in time in my career.
“There’s going to be a time and place when I’ll come out. Looking at the fight, Fury knows that wasn’t me. I know that wasn’t me. Everyone in boxing knows that wasn’t the real Deontay Wilder. I wasn’t there. From the first start, my whole body and everything. I’m looking forward to giving the world the best of Deontay Wilder.
‘Not done yet’
“I’m not done yet. Everything is going to be alright. Trust me. This [third fight] is the last final straw right here, as I see it.”
Earlier in April, Fury questioned Wilder’s motives for taking up the option of a trilogy fight. “I don’t know the man’s personal circumstances, but from what I’ve seen of these American fighters and sportsmen, they always live a rock star’s lifestyle, even though they are not rock stars,” Fury told talkSPORT .
“They go through a lot of money quite quickly. Just look at Mike Tyson, he went through like a billion dollars. So, I’m sure that the money side of it is the tempting thing.
“I don’t think it’s too tempting to go in there and get an absolute beating like he did before, but he would be tempted by the amount of money that he would receive.
“I think that’s the reason he’s taking the fight, for the money.”
British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury could meet twice next year, though both have other business to sort first.
Heavyweight rivals Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury could be set to meet twice in 2021, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
The two world champions are seemingly closing in on meeting in the ring but, before they can face each other, both have other business to take care of.
Joshua is due to defend his IBF, WBA and WBO titles against Kubrat Pulev in a bout that was originally scheduled to take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on June 20, only to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
As for Fury, the holder of the WBC belt, he is set to once again go up against Deontay Wilder in a third episode of their rivalry.
A recent media report suggested Wilder – who lost the title to Fury in their February rematch – could be willing to step aside to allow a unification showdown between the Brits to happen next, provided he is first in line for a crack at the winner.
While Hearn says Joshua has “no problem” signing a deal to face Fury, he explained why the fight is not expected to happen before the end of this year.
“I had a conversation [on Thursday] saying, ‘Wilder is not stepping aside, we will take care of that fight, you take care of the Pulev fight, but let’s get a deal done for 2021’,” Hearn told Sky Sports.
“We have no problem signing now to fight Fury in 2021.
“It will work out better for both of them to box off those fights then have a clear route, subject to Dillian Whyte being mandatory to Fury, to get [an undisputed title fight] done.”
Hearn also confirmed that any agreement is likely to include a rematch clause, setting up the potential for a hugely lucrative double-header between Joshua and Fury next year.
“It would probably be a two-fight deal,” Hearn said. “Any deal between Fury and AJ, you run it twice.
“It is not a condition of the deal but it was in their deal with Deontay Wilder, and it is the biggest fight in boxing, so it is likely you will see that twice.”
Fury confirmed in an Instagram Live on Thursday that he has no plans to pay Wilder to postpone a third clash, though Joshua is firmly in his sights.
“I’m going to take him out again for the third time, hopefully at the end of the year, and then we’re going to go into 2021 with the biggest fight in boxing history between two undefeated British heavyweights, me and AJ, and we’re going to battle it out for all the gold,” he said.
A distant relative of Bartley Gorman, a champion bareknuckle boxer known as the ‘King of the Gypsies’ who went undefeated between 1972 and 1992, and named after Mike Tyson, Fury was destined for the ring from an early age.
Fury is unbeaten in 24 fights, 18 of which have failed to go the distance, and relishes the sense of spectacle that accompanies a fight.
British heavyweight Tyson Fury, who challenges Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday, is the living embodiment of Mickey O’Neil, the unhinged gypsy boxer played by Brad Pitt in Guy Ritchie’s 2000 film ‘Snatch’.
Fury’s clash with Klitschko, initially slated for October 24, was postponed after the 39-year-old WBA, IBF and WBO title-holder tore a tendon in his calf. It has given Fury, the 27-year-old showman from the gypsy community with the most evocative name in boxing, an extra month to raise the temperature around the ice-cold Ukrainian.
“You may have fought plenty of peasants in your time, from Poland or wherever, but you’ve not fought the king of the gypsies before. You’re looking at one here,” Fury told Klitschko during a September press conference, having earlier emerged dressed as Batman and staged a fight with an accomplice disguised as Robin.
“You’re an old man, you’re getting knocked out. I can’t wait, I cannot wait for this. I’m as confident of winning as waking up in the morning and putting my shoes on. That’s how this fight’s going to go. A very sharp, easy, simple knockout. I’ll put him to bed in the sixth round,” Fury added.
Cocky, outspoken and shaven-headed, the giant, 6′ 9″ (2.06m) Fury is unbeaten in 24 fights, 18 of which have failed to go the distance, and relishes the sense of spectacle that accompanies a fight.
“I’m a Gypsy fighter and that means I will never turn away from a proper fight,” he told in 2011. “I don’t mean a fat idiot on a (travellers’) site somewhere. They get a few beers in them and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali; throwing punches, swearing and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I’d love to knock a few of them out.”
On his roots, he has said: “You are born a traveller. You can’t make out you’re a traveller just like you can’t make out that you are black. It’s my life and it’s what I am and even if I had £10 million, I could still sleep in a caravan.”
Saviour
Born into a family of Irish Traveller heritage in Wythenshawe in the Manchester suburbs, Fury turned pro in 2008, knocking out Hungary’s Bela Gyongyosi in the first round on his debut.
A distant relative of Bartley Gorman, a champion bareknuckle boxer known as the ‘King of the Gypsies’ who went undefeated between 1972 and 1992, and named after Mike Tyson, Fury was destined for the ring from an early age.
His uncle, Peter, is one of his trainers, while his father, known as Gypsy John, was also a fighter and recently served five years in prison for gouging out a man’s eye in a gruesome brawl at a car auction.
Although a born-again Christian, Fury Jnr has a sharp tongue that has landed him in hot water with the boxing authorities on several occasions.
He branded British rival David Haye “a classless prima donna” and “a diva” for postponing their fight in 2013, which was eventually cancelled. Liverpudlian rival David Price, meanwhile, was described as a “shithouse scouse prick”.
But Fury, who this week called for doping to be legalised across all sport, can also be the butt of his own jokes when his barbs fail to find their intended targets.
Seeking to goad the American Deontay Wilder, AKA ‘The Bronze Bomber’, last year, he mistakenly tweeted abuse to English women’s footballer Lucy Bronze, while footage of him accidentally upper-cutting himself during a 2009 fight with Lee Swaby continues to prove a hit on YouTube.
Speaking to Stats Perform News, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has praised the “very unique” heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Tyson Fury became a two-time world champion by defeating Deontay Wilder in February.
Tyson Fury can go on to achieve whatever he wants in a heavyweight division that is “booming” right now, according to WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman.
After much-publicised personal problems interrupted his career, Fury has returned to the pinnacle of the sport, becoming a two-time world champion in February when he sensationally stopped the previously unbeaten Deontay Wilder.
The stunning victory in Las Vegas secured the WBC title and Sulaiman is full of praise for the “very unique” British fighter – and not just because of his talents in the ring.
A third fight with Wilder is set to happen at some stage in the future, while Fury has also made clear his desire for a unification showdown with Anthony Joshua, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO titles again after defeating Andy Ruiz Jr in their rematch late last year.
“The heavyweight division is booming. It’s never been as interesting in the previous 20 years as it is now,” Sulaiman, who was speaking to Stats Perform News courtesy of @trcksuits, said.
“Tyson Fury – what a story. What an unbelievable comeback from thinking of taking his own life to being WBC champion of the world. Knocking out Wilder, who had been champion for five years, undefeated with such a knockout record. You can see Tyson Fury doing anything that he puts his mind to. He is very powerful, very intelligent, very calm. He is very unique. I see him having all the elements to accomplish any of his dreams.”
A third chapter in the Fury-Wilder rivalry seemed certain to happen in 2020, only for the coronavirus pandemic to put all boxing plans on hold.
Sulaiman confirmed to Stats Perform News that there is no “definite schedule” over when that fight will happen, though he hopes boxing can quickly pick up where it left off before the enforced break. “As of today, there is no definite schedule for any world title fight,” Sulaiman said.
“Wilder and Fury were scheduled to do a third fight, but everything that is going on is only informal communications that we cannot fully evaluate. So what I think is going to happen, is that the moment the first fight takes place, everything will start rolling, and the activity will start picking up.
“Hopefully the world will cure, hopefully there will be a vaccine. Hopefully we will all learn how to live in the next era and activity will get back to normal. We are tired of watching the replays from the World Cup and the great fights from the past. All the fans are waiting for fresh activity.”
Tyson Fury got his hands on one of the four major world belts again when he ended Deontay Wilder’s long reign as champion.
Tyson Fury celebrates after defeating Deontay Wilder during a WBC heavyweight championship boxing match. (File Photo)
Tyson Fury is mentally stronger than Anthony Joshua and would overcome his British rival in similarly commanding fashion to how he defeated Deontay Wilder, according to the WBC heavyweight champion’s coach Andy Lee.
Fury got his hands on one of the four major world belts again when he ended Wilder’s long reign as champion, knocking the previously unbeaten American down twice on the way to a seventh-round stoppage in February.
While he is contractually obliged to face Wilder for a third time and Joshua is scheduled to take on Kubrat Pulev next, the outbreak of coronavirus and subsequent suspension of major boxing shows has clouded the issue.
Speculation is rife that a domestic bout could take priority but Lee can only see one outcome in a fight that would determine the undisputed world heavyweight champion.
“I think (Joshua) is still an improving fighter,” Lee told Sky Sports . “A little bit of inexperience and mentally he’s not as strong as Tyson.
“I think Tyson would beat him in eight rounds. I like Anthony Joshua, I think he’s a great fighter, a great champion.
“I still think it’s a great fight and a great match-up and it’s the only real match-up in the heavyweight division left for both guys, but I think Tyson wins in a similar fashion to what he did to Wilder.”
Lee believes Wilder would be unwise to jump straight back into the ring with Fury because of the one-sided nature of their February contest in Las Vegas.
“Everything is in open play again, whatever fights were made before the lockdown kind of become null and void in that everything is up for renegotiation again,” Lee said.
“If I was in Wilder’s team, I would say ‘take another fight, maybe Andy Ruiz or somebody else, and get a win, get your confidence back up and try to improve then come back and fight Tyson again for the trilogy’
“If they fight again, I can only see it going the same way, if not even more emphatic for Tyson.”
In a recent development that has sparked intrigue and speculation within the entertainment industry, former boxing champion Mike Tyson has made headlines with a strong message regarding alleged invitations to gay parties hosted by music mogul Diddy. Tyson’s statement sheds light on a potentially controversial aspect of the entertainment world and has garnered significant attention from fans and media alike.
According to Tyson, Diddy purportedly extended invitations for him to attend gatherings described as “gay parties.” The revelation has raised eyebrows and prompted questions about the nature of these events and Tyson’s response to the invitations.
Tyson’s message regarding Diddy’s alleged invitations carries significant weight, given his status as a prominent figure in both the sports and entertainment spheres. The boxing icon’s decision to speak out on the matter underscores the importance of addressing issues related to inclusivity and acceptance within the industry.
The implications of Tyson’s statement extend beyond the realm of entertainment, touching on broader societal conversations surrounding LGBTQ+ rights and representation. The revelation of alleged invitations to gay parties hosted by a prominent figure like Diddy raises important questions about inclusivity and acceptance within the entertainment industry.
As Tyson’s message continues to reverberate throughout the media landscape, it serves as a reminder of the importance of fostering an environment of respect and understanding within all facets of society. Whether the allegations prove to be true or not, Tyson’s statement has initiated a conversation that underscores the need for ongoing dialogue and awareness surrounding LGBTQ+ issues.
In a surprising turn of events, boxing legend Mike Tyson has responded to Jake Paul’s recent apology with skepticism, suggesting that it may be a tactical move aimed at postponing their highly anticipated match.
The apology, issued by Jake Paul after a series of controversial remarks, was intended to smooth over tensions between the two fighters. However, Tyson’s reaction indicates that he sees through the gesture and perceives it as an attempt to delay the inevitable showdown.
Tyson’s response comes as no surprise to those familiar with his no-nonsense approach to boxing. Known for his fearless demeanor and uncompromising attitude in the ring, Tyson has built a reputation as one of the sport’s most formidable competitors. His skepticism towards Jake Paul’s apology reflects his keen understanding of the strategies employed by opponents both inside and outside the ring.
While Jake Paul’s apology may have been well-intentioned, Tyson’s refusal to accept it without reservation suggests that he remains focused on the task at hand: defeating his opponent in the ring. For Tyson, the fight represents more than just a chance to showcase his skills; it’s an opportunity to prove himself against a formidable adversary and solidify his legacy as one of boxing’s all-time greats. As the anticipation for the match continues to build, fans are left to wonder whether Jake Paul’s apology will ultimately affect the outcome. However, one thing is certain: Mike Tyson’s unwavering determination and refusal to back down will ensure that the fight lives up to its billing as one of the most highly anticipated events in recent boxing history.
In the end, Tyson’s reaction to Jake Paul’s apology serves as a reminder of the intensity and competitiveness that define the world of professional boxing. Whether it’s fear or strategy motivating the fighters, one thing is certain: when the bell rings, all eyes will be on the ring as two titans clash in a battle for supremacy.
Mike Tyson, the boxing legend known for his ferocity in the ring, has once again left fans astonished, but this time it’s not with his boxing prowess—it’s with his jaw-dropping collection of high-value supercars.
In a recent revelation that sent shockwaves through the sports world, it was uncovered that Tyson has amassed a collection of supercars worth millions of dollars. Fans, accustomed to seeing Tyson’s dominance inside the boxing ring, were taken aback by the sheer extravagance of his car collection.
From sleek Ferraris to powerful Lamborghinis, Tyson’s garage boasts some of the most coveted and exclusive supercars on the market. Each vehicle is a testament to his discerning taste and appreciation for automotive excellence.
But what truly stunned fans was the total value of Tyson’s collection, which is rumored to exceed tens of millions of dollars. Among the highlights is a rare Bugatti Veyron, one of the most expensive production cars ever made, adding a touch of opulence to Tyson’s already impressive collection.
As images of Tyson’s supercars circulated online, fans couldn’t help but marvel at the boxing icon’s extravagant lifestyle outside the ring. While Tyson’s love for fast cars is well-known, the extent of his collection has left fans in awe and admiration. Beyond his achievements in boxing, Tyson’s high-value supercar collection serves as a reminder of his success and status as a global sports icon. His ability to command attention both inside and outside the ring reaffirms his place among the legends of the sporting world. As fans continue to uncover new details about Tyson’s lavish lifestyle, one thing is clear: the boxing legend’s fascination with high-performance supercars is as awe-inspiring as his legendary career in the ring.
In a bold proclamation that has stirred controversy within the boxing world, Jake Paul has issued a brazen challenge to the legendary heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson, asserting that he could defeat him in a match within just five minutes.
The statement, made by Paul in a recent interview, has sent shockwaves through the combat sports community, with many expressing skepticism and disbelief at the YouTuber-turned-boxer’s audacity.
“Mike Tyson is weak as a cat,” Paul declared confidently. “I have no doubt in my mind that I could knock him out within five minutes if given the chance. He may have been a formidable opponent in his prime, but he’s past his prime now, and I’m ready to prove that I’m the superior fighter.”
Paul’s bold words have ignited a flurry of reactions, with some dismissing his claims as mere bravado and others expressing concern over the potential consequences of such a matchup.
However, despite the skepticism surrounding Paul’s declaration, there is no denying the growing confidence and ambition of the social media sensation as he continues to make waves in the world of professional boxing. As speculation mounts over whether a showdown between Paul and Tyson will ever come to fruition, one thing is certain: Jake Paul’s willingness to challenge boxing’s most iconic figures is sure to keep fans on the edge of their seats, eagerly awaiting the next chapter in this unfolding saga.
