Former heavyweight champ Fury appears set to end latest retirement
If 'The Gypsy King' returns it would probably be to finally fight Joshua
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Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who has retired and unretired at least four times, appears as though he is about to end his latest retirement.
Fury on Monday posted an 11-second video to social media of him at the gym with trainer SugarHill Steward.
“Just in the gym. Happened to bump into somebody you might know,” Fury said as he panned the camera to Steward, who became his trainer ahead of his second fight against Deontay Wilder in 2021.
Steward laughed and Fury could be heard in the background saying, “We’re back.” Steward then added, “You know what time it is.”
Then Fury turned the camera back on himself, pointed at it and said, “You know what’s coming.”
What’s coming, if Fury is indeed returning, is obviously the long-awaited showdown with British countryman and former two-time unified titlist Anthony Joshua, which the boxing public has demanded for years and remains the one mega fight left for both of them. Both are past their best but it is still by far one of the biggest fights that can be made in boxing even if neither holds a world title and both are coming off losses.