{"id":710599,"date":"2026-07-25T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710599\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:18:08","slug":"tyson-fury-offered-heavyweight-title-fight-its-time-you-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710599\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury offered heavyweight title fight: &#8220;It&#8217;s time you retired&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/tyson-fury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> has been called out by a world champion who, while showing a measure of respect, has promised to send the 37-year-old into retirement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/anthony-joshua-on-fury-vs-wach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Gypsy King\u2019 took care of business in his second warm-up fight against Mariusz Wach with a seventh round stoppage<\/a>, after unanimously outpointing Arslanbek Makhmudov in April.<\/p>\n<p>Having purposely selected the 46-year-old Wach as a low-risk opponent, although Fury didn\u2019t look at his best, there were no hiccups in Pattaya, Thailand, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is then for Fury to finally lock horns with Anthony Joshua, who must first complete his own warm-up assignment against Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But while the former two-time heavyweight champion clearly has his hands full, he could nonetheless end up facing Agit Kabayel in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was elevated from \u2018interim\u2019 to full WBC champion last month, shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c6210pk8klro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oleksandr Usyk vacated his three heavyweight titles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the formidable body puncher is now searching for a worthy opponent, having not fought since his third-round finish over Damian Knyba in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/agitkabayel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Taking to social media<\/a>, Kabayel called out Fury, with whom he has shared many rounds of sparring, and urged him to name a location for their potential clash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always had respect for you, but I think the time has come for you to retire. SEND ME LOCATION.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Fury reminded Kabayel of his two scheduled outings against Wach and Joshua, but said he would entertain their matchup afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Before then, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/kabayel-in-talks-for-unification-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kabayel could enter a unification match with WBA champion Murat Gassiev<\/a>, who also benefited from Usyk\u2019s decision to vacate his world titles.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has been called out by a world champion who, while showing a measure of respect, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710599","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\/710599","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=710599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}