{"id":221798,"date":"2025-10-24T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:56:12","slug":"tyson-fury-makes-latest-retirement-u-turn-with-remarkable-1bn-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221798\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury makes latest retirement U-turn with remarkable \u00a31bn claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after asserting that he would be returning to the ring, Tyson Fury has changed his mind once again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/2665727\/tyson-fury-retirement-video-anthony-joshua-fight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mancunian hung up his gloves for a fourth time in January<\/a> following a second consecutive loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/oleksandr-usyk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fury hasn't set foot in the ring since losing to Usyk in December\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761278170_918_crop-3356940.jpg\" data-caption=\"Fury hasn't set foot in the ring since losing to Usyk in December\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761278170_918_crop-3356940.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Fury hasn&#8217;t set foot in the ring since losing to Usyk in DecemberCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Fans then had their hopes raised earlier this month when Fury&#8217;s promoter <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/frank-warren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Warren<\/a> declared <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/boxing\/3621068\/tyson-fury-comeback-u-turn-frank-warren-talks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his client was ready to launch a comeback in 2026<\/a> once he had completed filming his biopic with Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Warren insisted that Fury was chomping at the bit to fight Usyk for a third time and that the long-awaited all-British showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/anthony-joshua\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Joshua<\/a> was a genuine possibility.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a recent interview with FurociTV, Fury showed little interest in putting the gloves back on.<\/p>\n<p>He even went as far as to suggest that he wouldn&#8217;t be tempted back between the ropes if there was \u00a31bn on the line.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury makes latest retirement U-turn with remarkable \u00a31bn claim What did Tyson Fury say about staying retired?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no actual reason for me to go back in the boxing ring,&#8221; said Fury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m 37 years old, I&#8217;ve been punched for the last 25 years, what do I want to go back to boxing for?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It used to be for the money, the titles, but now I&#8217;ve got more money than I can spend, I&#8217;ve got unlimited amounts of belts and titles, and does it make me any happier? No.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was the chase better than the victory? Yes. The climb was better than the mountain peak, to be fair. Always the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could go back to boxing at any given time, but I just don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got no interest in that clamour or the limelight, or to go get punched again, I&#8217;m not interested, it doesn&#8217;t do anything for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fury told Warren that he was launching a comeback in 2026\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190064659.jpg\" data-caption=\"Fury told Warren that he was launching a comeback in 2026\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190064659.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Fury told Warren that he was launching a comeback in 2026Credit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could offer me \u00a31bn today, and it wouldn&#8217;t move the needle, because I&#8217;ve gone past that point of caring about what other people think.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boxing doesn&#8217;t take any prisoners; it only takes casualties. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So for me to be sat here, all my faculties in order, won every belt, made loads of money, and not got a scratch on me, I&#8217;ve done really well there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to tempt fate. I don&#8217;t want to keep going back and back to the well because how many times can you keep doing it without getting brain damage or whatever else? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not being able to walk in a straight line, it&#8217;d all be pointless then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Fury&#8217;s history with retirement<\/p>\n<p>Fury has gone back and forth on retirement several times over the years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fury retired from boxing after knocking out Whyte in April 2022\" height=\"588\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"GETTY\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1240188674.jpg\" data-caption=\"Fury retired from boxing after knocking out Whyte in April 2022\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1240188674.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Fury retired from boxing after knocking out Whyte in April 2022Credit: GETTY<\/p>\n<p>He walked away from the sport for the first time in 2013 after his domestic dust-up with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/david-haye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Haye<\/a> collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he would reverse his assertion shortly after to dethrone <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/wladimir-klitschko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wladimir Klitschko<\/a> in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n<p>Following the historic victory, Fury&#8217;s mental health spiralled out of control, leading to a three-year hiatus from the ring.<\/p>\n<p>In a stunning turn of events, &#8216;The Gypsy King&#8217; launched the most unlikely of comebacks to snatch the WBC heavyweight title away from <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/deontay-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A third retirement followed in April 2022 after his brutal knockout win over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/who\/dillian-whyte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillian Whyte<\/a>\u00a0at Wembley Stadium, but that only lasted eight months.<\/p>\n<p>His latest decision brings the number up to four, and if Fury&#8217;s word is to be believed, then it will stay that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weeks after asserting that he would be returning to the ring, Tyson Fury has changed his mind once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,6102,35978,15283,19056,4036,4204,5468,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-221798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-comeback","tag-date","tag-frank-warren","tag-oleksandr-usyk","tag-retirement","tag-return","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}