2025-10-24 09:19:46

Tyson Fury has “no reason” to return to boxing.

The former heavyweight champion, 37, hung up the gloves following his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk, 38, in December 2024, and although his promoter Frank Warren had since said he was looking to get back in the ring, Fury has insisted “The Gypsy King is dead”.

Speaking with FurociTV, he said: “There’s no actual reason for me to go back in the boxing ring.

“I’m 37 years old, I’ve been punched for the last 25 years, what do I want to go back to boxing for?”

“It used to be for the money, the titles, but now I’ve got more money than I can spend, I’ve got unlimited amounts of belts and titles, and does it make me any happier? No.

“Was the chase better than the victory? Yes. The climb was better than the mountain peak, to be fair. Always the case.”

Fury added he could return to the ring “at any given time”, but he just simply didn’t want to.

He continued: “I’ve got no interest in that clamour or the limelight, or to go get punched again, I’m not interested, it doesn’t do anything for me.

“You could offer me £1 billion today, and it wouldn’t move the needle, because I’ve gone past that point of caring about what other people think.”


The former heavyweight champion added the sport “doesn’t take any prisoners”, and that he was lucky to have retired from boxing relatively unscathed.

He said: “Boxing doesn’t take any prisoners, it only takes casualties. So for me to be sat here, all my faculties in order, won every belt, made loads of money, and not got a scratch on me, I’ve done really well there.

“But I don’t want to tempt fate. I don’t want to keep going back and back to the well because how many times can you keep doing it without getting brain damage or whatever else? Not being able to walk in a straight line, it’d all be pointless then.”

In July, Fury called for a third fight with Usyk, and later said the bout would take place in April 2026 at London’s Wembley Stadium.

The Gypsy King has also been linked to Anthony Joshua, 36, with AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn recently saying the former heavyweight titleholder wants to share the ring with Fury “more than anything”.

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