Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury, a British boxing giant standing tall at 6’9″ and tipping the scales at 278 lbs, has been ruling the heavyweight division with his iron fists since 2020. Not just a family man with a bunch of kids and a love story that dates back to 2008 with Paris, but Fury also boasts a record that reads like a warrior’s epic—especially his trilogy with Deontay Wilder (2-0-1, with 2 KOs) and a hat trick against Derek Chisora. Before claiming the WBC crown, he unified the heavyweight titles way back in 2015, only to take a brief hiatus from the throne. With a squad of fighting siblings by his side, Fury’s not just throwing punches; he’s crafting a legacy that’s as large as his frame. Tyson Fury’s net worth is estimated to be around £50million, according to Forbes magazine.
By Scott Gilfoid: With IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) saying this week that he’ll be ending his boxing career after his next fight against Wladimir Klitschko on July 9, it looks like IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (16-0, 16 KOs) and his promoter Eddie Hearn won’t be getting the unification fight against Fury.
Hearn has been talking about wanting to match Joshua against Fury in November in what would be a big fight fit for a stadium. However, Fury says he’ll be hanging up his gloves after the rematch with Klitschko in two months from now at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.
By Scott Gilfoid: Well, I knew it was coming. After holding down the IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles for all of five months, Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) is saying he wants to retire after his July 9 rematch against Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs).
Fury says he’s lost the motivation and is sick of the sport. I knew this was going to happen as soon as he won those titles last November. With the mess of money that Fury won in that fight, and the big money he’s going to get in the rematch against Klitschko, it has taken his ambition from Fury. I see this kind of thing all the time.
When a fighter loses the need to keep fighting after making a bundle of money, the distractions of suddenly having a life of leisure sends them into retirement.
Today the second kick-off press conference with Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury took place at the RTL media center in Cologne, Germany. With an attendance of 150 media representatives and 250 RTL associates, the TV broadcaster organized a first-class media event marking the ten year anniversary of close partnership with the Klitschko Management Group.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) chose to keep his shirt on for today’s press conference with Wladimir Klitschko (64-4-, 53 KOs) in Cologne, Germany to publicize their rematch on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester. UK.
Fury chose to focus instead on telling the media how boring he sees the 40-year-old Wladimir, and how the Ukrainian fighter even admitted that he didn’t try the last time he fought Fury in November of last year in Dusseldorf, Germany.
By Scott Gilfoid: 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) came unglued today under questioning from the media and barbs from IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) at their press conference in Manchester, UK.
With Fury talking about wanting to fight more bums after he gets done with Wladimir and the blunt questions from the media, it had Wladimir on edge. The aging Ukrainian heavyweight says he’s going to knockout Fury on July 9 in their rematch at the Manchester Arena.
By Scott Gilfoid: At today’s press conference a very fat looking IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) removed his shirt at his press conference with former world champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) in Manchester, UK.
Fury’s midsection looked very, very fat like a non-athlete that has had a lot of couch time. Fury then proudly admitted that he came into his current training camp close to 60 pounds’ overweight. He said he was four stones overweight, which comes out to 56lbs. Fury says he’s taken on one stone [14lbs] already.
At today’s press conference in the Manchester Arena in Manchster, UK, Wladimir Klitschko and current WBO, WBA Super, IBO and Ring Magazine World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury met again for the first time after Wladimir’s November 2015 loss in Düsseldorf, Germany.
By Scott Gilfoid: David Haye is in the belief that IBF heavyweight belt holder Anthony Joshua (25-0, 18 KOs) can already face IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) right now and beat him. Haye notes that Fury is slow is on his feet and not agile to escape someone like Joshua. Haye says that Joshua beat Fury up in sparring in the past when Joshua was still an amateur.
We don’t know whether this was in fact true or not. This is more of a case of Fury complimenting Joshua after a sparring session and he may have gone a little bit overboard in slathering on the compliments. Of course, there’s also rumors that David Price took care of Joshua during a sparring session, so it’s hard to know what reality is when it comes to rumors.
“I think he’s ready for Tyson Fury right now. If you look at Fury’s style, he’s very loose and not very fast or agile,” said Haye via skysports.com.
By Todd Creel: Let’s pretend for a moment that the boxing fans were put first for the rest of 2016. The people who work hard all week, keep track of the fighters and give their hard earned money and finite amount of time and attention to this sport get to see the fights they want.
The best of the division fight the best of the division, not because it makes the most money for the promotional companies or the networks, but because the fans deserve to be rewarded for their willingness to watch and because it truly only makes sense to have ONE champion per division.
By Adam Godfrey: It is easy to wax lyrical about British Boxing and its place in the world scene. Of the recognized World Championship belts, from Minimumweight to Heavyweight (but not including Interim Champions, Champions in Recess or ‘Regular’ champions where there is already a ‘Superchampion’, of which Britain only has one, Jamie McDonnell, who is WBA ‘Regular’ Bantamweight Champion), thirteen are held by a fighter who hails from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Americans hold seven; Mexicans hold eleven, Puerto Ricans hold four, another four belong to Filipinos and Cubans hold two. Therefore, of the main Boxing nations, Britain tops the World Championship table by two over second placed Mexico. However, there are myriad factors involved in determining how healthy a nation’s Boxing scene is, with the number of World Champions it boasts being only one of them.
For example, Mexico, while having fewer world champions representing it, currently counts the biggest PPV draw in the World amongst its ranks, in Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. Having just one fighter as popular as Canelo could arguably be considered as much of an advantage as having seven or eight lesser-known World Champions if it brings Boxing to the attention of a greater mass of people.