{"id":443864,"date":"2026-01-28T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:43:09","slug":"tyson-fury-vs-arslanbek-makhmudov-announcement-comeback-fight-after-retirement-u-turn-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443864\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury vs Arslanbek Makhmudov announcement, comeback fight after retirement U-turn, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury will face Arslanbek Makhmudov in his comeback fight in April, weeks after saying he would come out of retirement.<\/p>\n

The bout between the Briton and Canada-based Russian Makhmudov will take place in the UK on April 11, with no venue yet announced, and will be broadcast on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Fury quit boxing in January last year after suffering a second straight defeat to Oleksandr Usyk \u2014 the latest in a string of retirements.<\/p>\n

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The 37-year-old \u201cGypsy King\u201d said earlier this month he would return to the sport in 2026 and has been training in Thailand.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell it\u2019s official, I\u2019m back doing what I love to do,\u201d Fury posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve brought the biggest network along with me @netflix @netflixuk this is going to be astronomical. Blessed by God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury has a record of 34 wins, two defeats and one draw.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled about the opportunity,\u201d said 36-year-old Makhmudov, who has won 21 of his 23 fights.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m coming to deliver a war.<\/p>\n

\u201cTyson Fury has been a big champion. I will be more ready than ever to leave with a massive W.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury had been expected to build towards a long-awaited fight against fellow British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, but Joshua\u2019s future is uncertain after a car crash in December, in Nigeria, in which two of his close friends were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury will face Arslanbek Makhmudov in his comeback fight in April, weeks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-443864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443864","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=443864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}