Sky Sports<\/a>, Brown confirmed that Fury\u2019s target return is April and said there is currently a list of opponents being explored, with Russian powerhouse Arslanbek Makhmudov near the top.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s four or five different opponents we\u2019re looking at. There\u2019s a few that tweak our interest. We are really down the road with the contract. We\u2019ve got a bit more work on it but we\u2019re down the road and an announcement is imminent. You will see Tyson back in the ring and we\u2019re looking and talking at various opponents at this very moment. We\u2019re looking to get out in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say he [Makhmudov] is in top three or four, most definitely. We\u2019re looking at five or six different opponents. That\u2019s not for me to announce, that\u2019s for the promoter to announce. Everybody is working hard to get this fight underway. That wouldn\u2019t be my position to announce that but I can confirm he\u2019s one of the three or four we are looking at very closely.\u201d<\/p>\n
No big UK cards have been announced for April at the time of writing, though Moses Itauma\u2019s rescheduled bout with Jermaine Franklin on March 28 likely rules out the first week.<\/p>\n
Makhmudov is coming off a points win over Dave Allen in October of last year. With 19 knockouts from 21 wins, he poses a threat to any heavyweight, however has fallen short at the top level against Agit Kabayel and, to a lesser extent, Guido Vianello.<\/p>\n
Asked if Fury has what it takes to win in April and push on for a belt, perhaps against KO puncher Wardley, Brown said absolutely.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost definitely [he can become world champion again]. I speak to Tyson daily and he\u2019s really enjoying boxing again. He\u2019s in Thailand and having a great time. He hasn\u2019t started sparring yet but he\u2019s really looking forward to coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury will return to the ring in the coming months and \u2018most definitely\u2019 has what it takes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380870","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=380870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}