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Tyson Fury has stated that he will walk away from boxing for good after his fight with Dillian Whyte on Saturday night. The fight will take place at Wembley Stadium in London for the WBC portion of the heavyweight championship.
Fury said in the Daily Mail:
“It’s been a long old journey, ups and downs in my career, lots of ups and downs. I’m coming up to 34, 20 years as a boxer, that’s enough for anybody. There’s plenty of other stuff I need to do like look after my kids and wife and enjoy them.”
We all have our views and predictions about who will win tomorrow, although most are saying that Fury should come through. But if I was a betting man, I would not put much of anything on Fury actually following up on his words about permanently putting boxing behind him.
My theory for why the “Gypsy King” has been talking retirement is because that, even though he has helped set a new record in managing to convince 95,000 people to attend the fight in person, there is still the matter of trying to sell the Pay Per View. And that is where most of the revenue comes from.
It is a well used sales tactic to try and scare people into believing that whatever they will be watching will be for the very last time. It is also a very common one. But it is something that people tend to fall for time and time again.
Of course, I could be wrong and we will see Tyson Fury hang up the gloves once and for all. But the timing does not seem right. Especially when there is still an opportunity for a potential all British showdown with Anthony Joshua at some point during the next year or so. And if that does not come to pass, then Oleksandr Usyk’s name is being built up in the UK enough to probably make a decent enough profit off a unification fight between Fury and the Ukrainian.
So, forgive my scepticism.
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