Tyson Fury says he’s still retiring

By Boxing News - 11/21/2013 - Comments

fury1By Scott Gilfoid: A day after announcing that he’s retiring from boxing, British heavyweight Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) is sticking with his guns, saying that he still absolutely is retiring from the sport. Fury said he wasn’t just in a bad mood when he announced his retirement on Wednesday.

Fury really plans on retiring, he says. Of course, the talk by some fans is that Deontay Wilder’s challenge of Fury led to him retiring rather than taking this fight and potentially getting knocked out in the 1st or 2nd rounds. Who knows why Fury is retiring. But we do know that Fury’s retirement is coming right at the moment that Deontay is calling him out for a fight, and that makes you wonder what’s going on. Did Deontay’s challenge send Fury into retirement?

Fury said this on his twitter today:

I hope Fury isn’t hanging up his gloves because he doesn’t want to risk his backside against the 6’7″ Deontay. If that’s the case, then he needs to man up and take the fight, if nothing else for a final payday before retiring. If Fury is retiring because he wasn’t able to get his big money fight with David Haye, which had to be disappointing for him the way he wasted a lot of training time, then Fury needs to get over it already. Stuff happens.

If Fury is going to retire off of that, then what does that tell you about Fury? It gives the impression that he can’t handle adversity, and that’s not good for a boxer. If the disappointment of seeing his fight with Haye go down the drain was enough for Fury to retire then what do you think would have happened if Fury had continued fighting and had met with adversity in the ring? I could see Fury getting frustrated and quitting if he had an opponent that he couldn’t dominate like the mediocre opposition he’s faced throughout his career.

Well, if Fury retires now with his unbeaten record, he can tell himself that he was good enough to beat all the top fighters. He’ll never know of course whether that was in fact true or not, but I can see how it might make it easier for him to sleep at night because he never had to face the bitter disappointment of having been whipped in his career. But you don’t like to see fighters giving up so easily when faced with a little hardship.



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