{"id":480850,"date":"2026-02-17T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:32:08","slug":"tyson-fury-heavyweight-will-have-no-coach-or-nutritionist-for-comeback-fight-against-makhmudov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480850\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury: Heavyweight will have no coach or nutritionist for comeback fight against Makhmudov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c1wejqevx1wo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fury retired<\/a> after successive defeats by former undisputed heavyweight champion Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old, who has 34 wins in 37 fights including one draw, was in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cx2g421lwrgo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vintage form at his first news conference<\/a> since announcing his return on Tuesday in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He tickled his opponent Makhmudov during their face-off and said he wanted to &#8220;make boxing great again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fury intends to win a world title during his comeback and dismissed claims he might struggle to sell 60,000 tickets at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium alongside the unheralded Makhmudov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Morecambe fighter spent two-and-a-half years out of the ring in his twenties because of a doping ban and mental health problems, but returned in 2018 after losing over 50kg and became world champion again in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m 37 years old, been inactive 16 months, which is a massive factor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I did it before with three years out the ring but I was only 29. Now I&#8217;m an older person, a pensioner really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I bring the X factor to this game and there&#8217;s nobody else alive today that can and bring more X factor to boxing than Tyson Fury.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fury retired after successive defeats by former undisputed heavyweight champion Usyk. The 37-year-old, who has 34 wins in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-480850","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\/480850","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=480850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}