Despite the talk of Joshua, Fury faces a decent test in Makhmudov, who has 19 knockouts within the first three rounds and is considered one of the world’s most avoided heavyweights.<\/p>\n
“I need a dangerous person to get my juices flowing,” Fury said. “I’ve got a stone-cold killer in this man who could put me out in one shot.<\/p>\n
“That means I have to be on my form to deal with this guy. At any given time in my career, I would deal with him the same as I’m going to on Saturday night.”<\/p>\n
Fury has not fought in Britain since stopping Derek Chisora in December 2022. A recent training stint in Thailand sparked a renewed passion for the sport, but the ‘Gypsy King’ said he “missed this game”.<\/p>\n
The Morecambe fighter has been out of the ring since losing consecutive bouts to world champion Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n
Fury’s return comes just a week after two of his trilogy rivals – Deontay Wilder and Chisora – fought in London, with the American victorious.<\/p>\n
However, Fury was scathing about the performance of two men he previously dominated.<\/p>\n
Fury described the pair as “finished,” suggesting that if he showed even a fraction of that decline, he would have no business being in the ring.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never seen two men slide as much as these two,” Fury added. <\/p>\n
“They look like a couple of club fighters from a white-collar match in a local leisure centre. It was sad for me to watch.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the talk of Joshua, Fury faces a decent test in Makhmudov, who has 19 knockouts within the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-520375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520375","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=520375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}