Tyson Fury contemplating retirement in near future
Enjoy Tyson Fury while you can.
The 31-year-old lineal heavyweight champion says he has three fights left on his contract with ESPN after his rematch with Deontay Wilder on Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on pay-per-view. After that, he suggested on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, he might never fight again.
“I have three fights left on me contract with ESPN,” he said on the show. “And after that, I will seriously think about walking away.”
He was asked why.
“Because I don’t need to fight anymore,” he said. “What is the point? What am I going to gain from it? When I beat Wilder on Saturday, I’ll have completed the game. … I will have won every single belt there is to win in the game, from minor to major. And I’ll have won The Ring Magazine belt twice, becoming only the second man in history to do that, me and Muhammad Ali.
“So, yeah, nothing more to do at all. Even after this win on Saturday, there’s nothing more to do, nothing more to be gained, no ventures to ever do any more. I have to keep going because I have three fights left on me contract after this one. So [after that] I don’t think I’ll be bothering any more?”
Fury was then asked what he’d do in retirement.
“I’ll be a happy man, contented, just living my normal, my simple life,” he said. “Sometimes you get these fighters that want to live these extravagant lives, the boats, the planes, whatever else they want to do with their lives. Or they want to be prime minister or president.
“I have no interest. I want to be left alone, go to the school and back, have a coffee in the morning, go work out and that’s it. Go to bed, wake up and do exactly the same thing every day. I’m just a very, very simple man. You’ve heard the song “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd … haven’t you? That’s me. Very simple man.”