Fury made the decision less than a month after his world heavyweight title defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh.
Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has announced his retirement from boxing.
“I’m going to make this short and sweet,” the British boxer said in a social media post on Monday. “I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing. It’s been a blast.”
Fury’s announcement comes after he was beaten by Oleksandr Usyk in a unanimous decision on December 21 in their rematch, which saw the Ukrainian unify the heavyweight world titles.
Fury’s shock retirement is being treated with some scepticism. Back in April 2022, the “Gypsy King”, as he is widely known, said he was “done” with boxing after defeating Dillian Whyte, only to return months later to fight Derek Chisora.
If this is indeed the end of Fury’s boxing career, he leaves the sport with an impressive professional record of 34 victories, which includes 24 wins via knockout, one draw and two losses – with the two defeats at the hands of Usyk in the past year.
Prior to Monday’s announcement, the 36-year-old had been expected to return to the ring in 2025 in a blockbuster showdown against longtime British rival Anthony Joshua.
Tyson Fury announces his RETIREMENT from boxing 🤯
Some career from the Gypsy King 👏
🎥 @Tyson_Fury pic.twitter.com/9dEKKepRXA
— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) January 13, 2025
Though ‘Money’ Mayweather hasn’t had the same impact as Ali away from the sport, he changed the game in many ways. Perhaps the best defensive fighter of all time, Mayweather claimed four of the top five biggest selling pay-per-view events ever on his way to a perfect 50-0 record and titles in five divisions.
Mayweather doesn’t buy that the more thrilling the fight the better the fighter, rather that he proved he was the greatest by completely outclassing those who stepped in the ring with him.
The event generated in excess of $300m in total revenue, with Mayweather pocketing $180m of that.
Mayweather is now reported to have a car collection worth around £20m in the present day, including the gift to himself in 2015.
And he has since claimed that he earns a mammoth $300m per month even after his professional career ended.
Usyk has cleared out all of the main competition in the heavyweight division in the last six years since moving up from cruiserweight. He left the weight class below as undisputed champion and recently repeated that feat at heavyweight. He twice beat Anthony Joshua to relive him of his three world titles and then defend them in a second fight, and wasn’t significantly hurt in either on his way to a brace of points victories.
This is the natural next fight for these long time British rivals and would be a legacy defining contest that would be of great interest to fans.
The big hitter from Baltimore has said he would knock Crawford out in the past, perhaps tongue in cheek, but the bigger man has warned him not to punch above his weight. Whilst a fight is highly unlikely to ever take place, some believe it wouldn’t be a foregone conclusion.
Cause they both have very high IQs and Tank is very explosive. That’s the one thing that Tank got that Errol [Spence] didn’t have. In boxing, an explosive fighter can go a lot of places. I was only able to cover the weights that I covered because I was so explosive. Explosiveness keeps people in check.”
“But I can really see Joshua winning that fight, to be honest. If he goes in and does what he has to do and does not think so much. I think Joshua thinks a lot. He doubts himself a lot as well. I don’t think he has a lot of self-motivation or self-confidence.
“I think the brands are so strong,” DuBoef told Sky Sports. “In the UK, the country would stop for an hour to see what happens and I think that’s a wonderful thing. They’re like peanut butter and jelly, Joshua and Fury, they go together.”
“Fury is a massive favourite but I think in general he was always a slight favourite (against Joshua),” Jones told the 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast.
Shields, widely regarded as the ‘GWOAT’, has built up an illustrious career since debuting in 2017. She is set to face Danielle Perkins on February 2.
I don’t know if it’s something that can happen, but I know that I can whip Jake Paul’s a** and people who are against that are just sexist and they don’t know boxing. It’s very strange to me that they think that a YouTuber can beat a woman boxer who has two Olympic gold medals, (multiple) world titles and fought as a heavyweight.
Gervonta “Tank” Davis is regarded as one of the most destructive fighters of his generation, carrying a legacy that often draws comparisons to the legendary Mike Tyson. With an undefeated record of 30-0, including 28 knockout victories, Davis has consistently demonstrated a level of power that leaves opponents sprawled on the canvas.
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“Sooner or later, in the coming weeks, we will want to put a plan together for Anthony Joshua. That is when the conversations will come with Frank Warren, Spencer Brown [Fury’s manager] and His Excellency [Turki Alalshikh] and say, ‘we want to make AJ-Fury what do you think? We’ll go from there.”
