Tyson Fury retired from boxing earlier this year only to later reverse his decision – but has now insisted ‘there’s no actual reason for me to go back in the boxing ring’
08:26, 24 Oct 2025Updated 08:27, 24 Oct 2025
Tyson Fury has once again shut down a return to boxing(Image: Getty Images)
Tyson Fury insists not even a £1billion pay day will tempt him into a comeback – because he fears it would turn his kids into brats.
Fury retired following his second successive defeat by Oleksandr Usyk last Christmas. He then reversed his decision and last week promoter Frank Warren confirmed his charge will be back next year. But multi-millionaire Fury has now changed his mind again – so that he doesn’t leave an even bigger fortune to his seven children.
There’s no actual reason for me to go back in the boxing ring,” he said. “You could offer me £1bn today, and it wouldn’t move the needle. “What am I going to do with it? It’s not going to affect my life at all. “It won’t affect their kids’ lives. It will just make them f****** spoiled brats and make them s*** people.”
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Fury went on to say, in an interview on YouTube channel FurociTV: “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.”
“I could go back to boxing at any given time, but I just don’t want to. 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 £1bn today, and it wouldn’t move the needle, because I’ve gone past that point of caring about what other people think.
“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.”
The British fighter’s remarks emerge just days after his promoter, Warren, revealed to Sky Sports that his headline act is once more determined to stage another return to the ring.
“He’s got to confirm it and sit down and work out when it’s going to be. If we do that then I’ll be delighted we can announce it. But he’s indicated to me and I know to a lot of people that he does want to carry on. So we’ll see,” Warren explained.
The seasoned promoter continued: “The fight he really wants is another go with Mr. Usyk, he really wants that. And they were great fights, really close fights, to watch. I’d watch that again. That’s the fight he wants. That’s the one he talks about all the time. He hasn’t got a lot of miles on the clock. He’s nobody’s fool, he’s a very smart guy, he knows better than you and me what he’s got left.
“He’s a fighting man and if he decides that he’s going to move forward and do it, he’ll do it. He’s not a stupid guy who’s clutching at straws. He’ll only fight if he feels he can do it.”