WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he no longer plans to retire after two more fights and instead hopes to keep boxing until age 40.
“I’m going to fight on till I’m 40 years old,” he told ESPN on Thursday. “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.”
That’s a change of thinking for the 31-year-old Fury, who as recently as March had said his fighting career was nearing completion.
“I’ll come back, and I’ll have two more fights, and hopefully we’ll sail into the sunset,” he told ITV in the United Kingdom on March 4, shortly after his seventh-round stoppage of Wilder.
“It is a roller coaster of emotions, and everything else. And to be away from the kids and away from getting up early for school runs and the crying and all that stuff, and the screaming and shouting, it takes a lot to come back to that after being away for nearly three months, to get adjusted back to that life.”
Sources told ESPN earlier this week that Fury’s camp is in talks to face Anthony Joshua in the Middle East, but Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) does still have an obligation to face Wilder for the third time in his next outing, which tentatively has been rescheduled for late in the year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: ESPN
