{"id":28732,"date":"2025-07-28T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:13:07","slug":"butterbean-wants-to-box-tyson-fury-after-knocking-out-ex-champions-60-year-old-father-in-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28732\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterbean wants to box Tyson Fury after knocking out ex-champion\u2019s 60-year-old father in ‘warm up’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boxing legend Butterbean keeps adding people to his list of potential comeback opponents. <\/p>\n

The 58-year-old has already called out Jake Paul<\/a>, Mike Tyson, Brock Lesnar, and Eddie Hall. <\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s eyeing fights with a famous father-son duo ahead of his first boxing bout since 2013. <\/p>\n

Butterbean<\/a> wants to face John Fury<\/a> in a \u2018warm-up\u2019 before facing his two-time heavyweight champion son, Tyson Fury<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Butterbean6 Dec 1997: Butterbean prepares for his fight against Doug Phillips at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Butterbean won the bout with a decision after four rounds. Mandatory Credit: Al Bello \/AllsportButterbean wants Fury fights <\/p>\n

Butterbean\u2019s ultimate goal is to test himself against the very best fighters in boxing. <\/p>\n

However, he\u2019d be willing to have a scrap with Fury\u2019s 60-year-old father to show he can still bang. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d fight the old man first, beat him up, slap around him pretty good,\u201d Butterbean told The Mirror<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I\u2019d want to beat the son up pretty bad. I would love to fight\u00a0Tyson Fury. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I was offered to fight his dad. And it\u2019s been a while back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to fight him, either one of them. But yeah, Tyson Fury is the one I\u2019d really want.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis dad would be an easy fight. That\u2019d be a couple-rounder. I\u2019d be like, \u2018Go out there and just have fun and then get ready for the son.\u2019 It\u2019d be a warm-up fight. <\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, now that I believe in myself, I can do anything. And since I\u2019m in such great shape, I know I can accomplish my goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Why is Butterbean making a comeback?<\/p>\n

Butterbean worryingly ballooned up to 500lbs after walking away from his combat sports career. <\/p>\n

The massive weight gain left him confined to a wheelchair, before he completed a dramatic 220lb body transformation. <\/p>\n

Now, the \u2018300-fight\u2019 veteran<\/a> wants to return to the ring and prove you can bounce back from anything. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wanna do one more fight to prove to people that no matter how down you get, if you believe in yourself like I believe in myself, you can accomplish anything,\u201d Butterbean said during an exclusive interview with Bloody Elbow. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wanna do it this year. Most definitely this year.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing legend Butterbean keeps adding people to his list of potential comeback opponents. The 58-year-old has already called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,14184,15289,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-28732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-butterbean","10":"tag-john-fury","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tyson-fury","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732","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=28732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}