Loquacious Tyson Fury blows hot and cold about retirement and bout with Joshua
Loquacious British boxer Tyson Fury has teased a potential sixth and final retirement from boxing just weeks before his ring return.
On April 11, the Gypsy King will lace up his gloves for the first time since his second straight defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024.
Fury, 37, will be welcomed back to the ring by Russian man-mountain Arslanbek Makhmudov live on Netflix.
The former two-time unified champion hopes to grease the wheels against Makhmudov as preparation for an unlikely trilogy with Usyk, who sent him into his fifth retirement from the sport.
But just weeks before his Tottenham tussle with the bear-wrestling Russian, Fury admits he could spurn any other offers which come his way and hang ’em up for the umpteenth time.
He told Sky Sports: “I can only concentrate on who I’m fighting and that’s Arslanbek Makhmudov.
“And that’s what I’ve got to do.
“I’ve got to get him out of the way, beat him and then who knows?
“That might be the end. I might retire again.”
A shock retirement after beating Makhmudov will see Fury walk away from the biggest payday of his career – a multi-million-pound showdown with Anthony Joshua.
The pair were on course to finally collide this September before Joshua lost two of his close friends, Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami, in a horror car crash in Nigeria last December.
And Fury admits AJ’s crash, which he escaped from with minor injuries, is partly what motivated him to return to the ring.
The Wythenshawe warrior said, “Tomorrow is not promised to anybody.
“The Bible says tomorrow is not a gift. Tomorrow ain’t promised.
“Tomorrow is a mystery. So we have to live for today.
“And me living for that day, I made my mind up there and then that I’m going to come back to boxing.
“Because it’s something that I love and I’m passionate about. And that I’ve always been in love with.
“And there is no tomorrow to put it off to. So that’s why I’m back today for this big fight.”
