Via Charles Brun: Top Rank’s Todd Duboef believes Tyson Fury could soon retire to face the winner of the Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk 2 or face UFC champ Francis Ngannou.
While Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) is saying he’s retired from boxing, he hasn’t vacated his WBC title since his last successful defense of his title on April 23rd last year. Dillian Whyte, and he successfully invited Ngannou into the ring right after the match to talk about their fight in an exhibition.
If 33-year-old Fury were to face Ngannou, it would be a mixed match, perhaps a mix of boxing and MMA rules. Fans will eat it, but it won’t count towards Fury’s 6’9″ record. It will be just for fun and, of course, for money purposes.
Fury hasn’t said anything to Top Rank about whether he will retire to further his career and will likely need something as big as Joshua’s win over Usyk to motivate him enough. return strength. One $100 million or more could be enough to pull Fury from France into the ring.
The thing is, Fury has made millions in a short time and doesn’t seem excited about the idea of returning to the sweat and hard work of daily becoming a professional boxer.
According to Celebrity’s net worth, Fury’s net worth is $65 millionthis clearly makes it difficult for the ‘King of Gypsy’ to continue his career and risk being defeated by the winner of the Joshua vs. Usyk II beat his perfect record.
“I think there’s obviously a lot of talk about the AJ vs Usyk rematch,” Top DeBoeuf told Sports sky. “Obviously it’s always been within his and everyone’s goals, but he doesn’t define himself [Fury] want to do.
“Maybe the winner, when that fight happens, can pull him out, or maybe something else can be the driving force like [Francis] Ngannou,” Duboef said of Fury.
Fury is said to have been knocked out by Deontay Wilder a few times over the past four years and luckily the referee didn’t stop the fight. In Fury’s first fight with Wilder in 2018, he was knocked unconscious in round 12.
Normally, the referees would stop the fight when the fighter was in Fury state, but that didn’t happen. A lot of fans feel that Fury has been given a break because of his popularity.
In Fury’s final bout against Wilder in October, some fans believed ‘The Gyspy King’ was pretty long overdue in the fourth round as he appeared to be knocked out in 11 seconds.
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“We saw Francis Ngannou in the ring and it’s strange that he’s retired but the MMA heavyweight champion is back in the ring to talk smash – what are we doing here?” Duboef said.
