{"id":484421,"date":"2026-02-16T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484421\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:58:07","slug":"tyson-fury-says-death-of-anthony-joshuas-friends-prompted-his-return-to-the-ring-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484421\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury says death of Anthony Joshua\u2019s friends prompted his return to the ring | Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury has revealed the deaths of two of long-time rival Anthony Joshua\u2019s friends<\/a> in a car crash in December was the catalyst for his return to boxing.<\/p>\n

Fury will step back into the ring on 11 April<\/a> after a 15-month absence to face the Russian-born heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov in a bout at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium which will be broadcast live on Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two-time world heavyweight champion Fury retired after his second successive loss<\/a> to Oleksandr Usyk at the end of 2024 and went a calendar year without a fight before announcing his latest comeback on 4 January. The announcement came a week after compatriot Joshua was involved in a car crash<\/a> in Nigeria which killed his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif \u201cLatz\u201d Ayodele.<\/p>\n

Any plans for Fury and Joshua to finally fight in 2026 have since been delayed, but Fury did acknowledge the part played by his old rival in his latest comeback. \u201cTomorrow might not ever come and I suppose the biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua<\/a>,\u201d Fury said at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was on holiday with my family in Thailand for Christmas just to get away from the rain. I was sick of the rain, it was depressing me and then I hear all about the bad news that\u2019s gone on and I thought: \u2018You know what, life is very, very short and very precious and very fragile and anything can happen at any given moment.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should never put things off until tomorrow, or next year, or next week because tomorrow is not promised to nobody. The Bible says tomorrow is not a gift, tomorrow ain\u2019t promised, tomorrow is a mystery so we have to live for today.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe living for that day, I made my mind up there and then I was going to come back to boxing because it\u2019s something I love, I am passionate about and I have always been in love with. There is no tomorrow so that\u2019s why I am back today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has revealed the deaths of two of long-time rival Anthony Joshua\u2019s friends in a car crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-484421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484421","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=484421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}