{"id":436546,"date":"2026-01-25T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:58:08","slug":"wardley-would-be-a-good-option-tyson-fury-on-potential-big-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436546\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wardley would be a good option\u2019: Tyson Fury on potential big fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tyson Fury has his eye on a potential fight with Fabio Wardley later in 2026, though it won\u2019t be what he does upon return in April.<\/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) is ending his latest \u201cretirement\u201d this spring, and will fight for the first time since his December 2024 rematch loss to Oleksandr Usyk. Arslanbek Makhmudov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/112645\/tyson-fury-plans-april-return-arslanbek-makhmudov-among-potential-opponents-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been mentioned<\/a> as a potential return opponent, but WBO titleholder Wardley (20-0-1, 19 KO) is on his radar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wardley, 31, is also expected to return in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLet\u2019s see how I am looking in my return fight, then later in 2026 (Wardley) would be a good option for me to try to become (three-time) heavyweight champion. (Wardley) has a hard fight himself coming up soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fury did acknowledge that to many boxing fans, the biggest, most desired fight for his career is still one with longtime media rival Anthony Joshua. The self-styled \u201cGypsy King\u201d is foregoing any trash talk or challenges about that at the moment, though he does sound interested if the fight is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI know the fight you guys all want, but at this time I won\u2019t say his name out of respect as he is in mourning. But if he is not going to continue in boxing, I\u2019d like Big Fab as a big test. This would (also be) a massive spectacle!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has his eye on a potential fight with Fabio Wardley later in 2026, though it won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-436546","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\/436546","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=436546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}