{"id":745263,"date":"2026-08-21T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:04:11","slug":"shane-fury-admits-tyson-fury-should-stay-well-clear-of-one-heavyweight-hes-the-last-man-id-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745263\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Fury admits Tyson Fury should stay well clear of one heavyweight: &#8220;He&#8217;s the last man I&#8217;d want&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Fury has admitted that he would not be entirely confident in seeing his brother, Tyson, step through the ropes and face one of boxing\u2019s fastest-rising stars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/wach-compares-fighting-fury-and-itauma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 comes off a seventh-round stoppage of Mariusz Wach<\/a> last month, which followed his <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-makhmudov-live-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unanimous decision victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>In both performances, though, Fury seemed a far cry from the man who delivered a vicious seventh-round finish against <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/deontay-wilder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deontay Wilder<\/a> in 2020, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, it is only natural that the 38-year-old has lost a step or two, especially with the Makhmudov win materialising around 16 months after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0kvpe54ky5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even at this stage in his career, however, Shane remains convinced that his brother has the beating of heavyweights champions <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/agit-kabayel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agit Kabayel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/daniel-dubois\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Dubois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the only man he would be apprehensive about sticking him in with is Moses Itauma, who faces Filip Hrgovic at London\u2019s O2 Arena next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>If he emerges victorious, the 21-year-old will become the youngest world heavyweight champion since Mike Tyson dethroned Trevor Berbick in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>But even with Itauma having not yet claimed the vacant IBF title, Shane Fury has told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iLIaORCEt48?si=yUV8iyDwmfK8H2U4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fight Your Corner<\/a> that he would strongly advise Tyson to stay away from the precocious talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last man I want to see Tyson in the ring with would be Moses Itauma, I wouldn\u2019t want to see it.<\/p>\n<p>18 months ago, I seen them two go for war [in sparring]. I mean, war. It was pay-per-view. He [Itauma] is only going one way, 18 months ago it was war, it was really good to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fury and Itauma have previously shared multiple rounds of sparring and so it seems Shane has already seen enough to steer his brother elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Fury has admitted that he would not be entirely confident in seeing his brother, Tyson, step through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-745263","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\/745263","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=745263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}