{"id":386042,"date":"2026-01-23T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386042\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:26:07","slug":"tony-bellew-delivers-honest-verdict-on-tyson-furys-return-after-year-long-layoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386042\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bellew delivers honest verdict on Tyson Fury’s return after year-long layoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of Tyson Fury<\/a> to the heavyweight division is confirmed and a matter of months away.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 announced his comeback earlier this month<\/a> and has been training in South-East Asia as he prepares another bid to become a three-time world heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

Speaking on social media, Fury said he had missed boxing, citing his love for the sport and a renewed ambition to reach the summit as the driving forces behind his latest return.<\/p>\n

Tony Bellew, who has verbally crossed paths with Fury in the past, welcomed the 37-year-old\u2019s comeback and explained why when speaking to Fightlens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to see him back. The most important thing is that we see Tyson Fury with boxing gloves on. That means the lad\u2019s happy and he\u2019s doing it for the right reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing I\u2019d ever want is to turn on the news or scroll through social media and see Tyson struggling with depression or anything like that. When he\u2019s in a boxing gym, he seems happy. So to me it doesn\u2019t really matter if he retires 25 times and comes back 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe creates headlines and says some extremely controversial stuff, but the boy can fight. When he gets in a boxing ring, we\u2019re all going to be watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fury has spoken openly about his mental health struggles in the past and how boxing provides him with focus and discipline. His ring return is expects to be in April<\/a> \u2014 wherever it takes place, and whoever against, the heavyweight division will once again have all eyes fixed firmly on Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of Tyson Fury to the heavyweight division is confirmed and a matter of months away. \u2018The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-386042","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\/386042","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=386042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}