LONDON \u2014 Tyson\u00a0Fury\u00a0says his return to boxing was spurred by the deaths of two friends of rival\u00a0Anthony Joshua in a car crash\u00a0in December.<\/p>\n
Former two-time heavyweight champion\u00a0Fury\u00a0(34-2-1) is ending a 15-month retirement from the ring on April 11 against Russian-born Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-2) at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n
The boxers were at the stadium on Monday when\u00a0Fury\u00a0revealed Joshua’s tragedy motivated him to fight again.<\/p>\n
Joshua was in a car crash in Nigeria which killed his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele.<\/p>\n
A week later,\u00a0Fury\u00a0announced his comeback. Any plans to fight Joshua this year were set aside but\u00a0Fury\u00a0acknowledged how his British compatriot and old rival played a part in his return.<\/p>\n
\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,\u201d\u00a0Fury\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
“I 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’s 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
“You should never put things off until tomorrow, or next year, or next week because tomorrow is not promised to nobody.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI made my mind up there and then I was going to come back to boxing because it’s something I love, I am passionate about and I have always been in love with. There is no tomorrow so that’s why I am back today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fury\u00a0retired after his second consecutive loss to Oleksandr Usyk at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I\u2019ve retired for the fifth time over a year ago, boxing for me has gone on a downward slope and it\u2019s become quite boring,\u201d he said. \u201cI am coming back to make boxing great again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Tyson\u00a0Fury\u00a0says his return to boxing was spurred by the deaths of two friends of rival\u00a0Anthony Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-479847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479847","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=479847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}