{"id":423861,"date":"2026-01-19T19:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:37:16","slug":"hes-in-his-prime-hearn-happy-to-see-tyson-fury-return-to-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423861\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s in his prime\u2019: Hearn happy to see Tyson Fury return to boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s inspiring me [with his training]! I look at it, I go, \u2018good on you\u2019. We\u2019ve had a lot to say over the years, but I love the fact that he\u2019s back in boxing. I think he\u2019s an incredible fighter. I think he\u2019s brilliant for the game. And he can be involved in some huge fights. And by the way, he\u2019s still in his prime. He lost two very close fights to Oleksandr Usyk. It\u2019s not like, \u2018oh, he\u2019s finished now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 37-year-old Fury (34-2-1, 24 KO) hasn\u2019t fought since December 2024, when he did lose a second close bout with Oleksandr Usyk, their first having come seven months prior. Fury\u2019s last win was a staggeringly poor performance, however you want to slice it, against Francis Ngannou in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Realistically, and not speaking as a promoter who stands to potentially make some money with Fury, he probably isn\u2019t quite \u201cin his prime\u201d still. But the real point Hearn is making, that Fury as we last saw him remains an elite-level heavyweight, is true. When he last fought against Usyk, it was hard to say that he wasn\u2019t still the second-best heavyweight in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fury\u2019s return is believed to be coming in April, though those plans could change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe\u2019s inspiring me [with his training]! I look at it, I go, \u2018good on you\u2019. We\u2019ve had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-423861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}