John Fury will not be attending his son\u2019s December 11 battle with Anthony Joshua in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
The pair have become estranged in recent years with Fury Snr believing that Tyson, now 38, should already be long retired.<\/p>\n
Fury Snr retired at the age of 27 before coming back for one last fight when he was 30. He retired for good in 1995 with a record of 8-4-1 (1 KO).<\/p>\n
He\u2019s concerned about the long-term effects that his son\u2019s career may cause. He also believes Joshua, who will be 37 when the bout takes place, should also consider another line of work.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old, however, has all but given up on trying to advise Tyson.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s no more I can do for Tyson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“I look at him as a father with children, and if he gets brain damaged, it is worrying.<\/p>\n
“If anything happens to him and he gets injured permanently, the money means nothing to you.<\/p>\n
“These things can happen at their stage of their lives, it has become dangerous for him and Joshua.<\/p>\n
“For me it is an accident waiting to happen. When you carrying on boxing too long, the inevitable could happen.”<\/p>\n
Even if Tyson was to ask his father to be there, the answer would still be the same.<\/p>\n
“Let me tell you, you have more chance of seeing a cow fly than me bothering with it,\u201d John said.<\/p>\n
“I don’t like the people in it, and I know accidents can happen. I’m not involved, so I don’t want to go to the fight.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be doing what his mother does. I’ll wait for somebody to tell me who wins the fight.<\/p>\n
“I don’t need validation to go to a boxing match and sit there and be an absolute spare prick at the wedding.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Fury will not be attending his son\u2019s December 11 battle with Anthony Joshua in Cardiff. The pair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,6102,10078,15289,101,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-john-fury","tag-sports","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793448","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=793448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}