Listen to Tyson Fury for fun, but do not do so if you expect to hear facts

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A whole bunch of boxing random thoughts…

I had to chuckle when heavyweight champion Tyson Fury announced the other day that the retirement nobody believed in the first place was over and that he was going to return for a third fight with Dereck Chisora following two one-sided wins against him years ago.

Does anyone actually believe that? Come on.

Fury is fun to listen to. He’s a great champion with a great personality but he says a lot of things that are more tall tale than rock solid truth. His retirement after the Dillian Whyte fight in April was certainly more fable than reality.

Oh, and how about when he made a recent video that he posted to social media in which he said that if he fights Anthony Joshua it would have to be in England for free — no purses, free tickets, free TV and nobody could make any money. Ummm, yeah right. I found that one particularly hilarious.

If Joshua beats Oleksandr Usyk to regain the three unified belts Fury-Joshua is the biggest fight in boxing, a potential nine-figure bonanza for each fighter. Sure, it would be great for free but let’s live in the real world. Their promoters would never in a bazillion years allow that fight to happen for free. The fighters would also never do it. And why should they?

Further, it was only last year that Fury-Joshua was agreed to and supposed to take place in Saudi Arabia for astronomical money — nine figures apiece — until Deontay Wilder won his arbitration case against Fury that forced their third fight and scuttled the mega fight with AJ. Now Fury wants to throw that potential payday away? The same Tyson Fury who said in another recent video with co-promoter Frank Warren that he would come