{"id":402455,"date":"2026-01-11T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:27:22","slug":"tyson-fury-explains-second-retirement-reversal-in-three-years-as-anthony-joshua-fight-talks-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402455\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury explains second retirement reversal in three years as Anthony Joshua fight talks heat up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former boxing heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has explained his latest reversal of retirement for a rumored showdown with Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury is back, but he understands the various risks associated with his latest boxing comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Fury, who announced his retirement after a rematch loss to Oleksandr Usyk in December 2024, will return to the ring later this year in a pair of Riyadh Season fights. While Fury\u2019s first fight post-retirement hasn\u2019t been formally announced, he\u2019s rumored to face fellow UK legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/tyson-fury\/tyson-fury-goes-off-anthony-joshua-pre-fight-death-threat-jake-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua in a boxing match later in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time that Fury has pivoted on his earlier stance on retirement. After a trilogy win over Deontay Wilder in October 2021, Fury announced his retirement, and then returned just six months later in a win over Dillian Whyte.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury admits he could \u2018end up in a wheelchair\u2019 after latest retirement reversal<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boxingscene\/status\/2009657718945018058?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interview<\/a>, Fury explained his decision to continue fighting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, there\u2019s nothing else other than the fight game,\u201d Fury said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this fight game. It\u2019s not for financial gain, I could have retired 10 years ago, I\u2019ve made an absolute fortune. I\u2019m 37, 38 later this year. I\u2019m older than a m\u2014\u2014\u2014-, but I love to fight. I have zero other interests, only fighting. I was born and raised to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of it all, I\u2019ll be punchier than a m\u2014\u2014\u2014- and I\u2019ll probably end up in a wheelchair like the rest of them all,\u201d Fury continued. \u201cPunch to death, don\u2019t know if it\u2019s Tuesday, Wednesday, or December, but it\u2019s the game I chose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fury will look to snap the first losing skid of his career when he returns to the ring against a to-be-announced opponent. Before his consecutive losses to Usyk, Fury was unbeaten through 35 career bouts, including recent victories over former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou and Derek Chisora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former boxing heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has explained his latest reversal of retirement for a rumored showdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[5276,703,49,48,82,5513],"class_list":{"0":"post-402455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tyson-fury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}