{"id":13283,"date":"2025-04-17T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tyson-fury-retirement-promoter-bob-arum-believes-fury-will-never-fight-again\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:41:21","slug":"tyson-fury-retirement-promoter-bob-arum-believes-fury-will-never-fight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tyson-fury-retirement-promoter-bob-arum-believes-fury-will-never-fight-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury retirement: Promoter Bob Arum believes Fury &#8220;will never fight again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Promoter Bob Arum believes Tyson Fury will not return to boxing after the heavyweight announced his retirement in January.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old Briton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvge7301243o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">made the surprise decision<\/a> just a few weeks after suffering a second successive loss to WBA (Super), WBC and WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fury has retired more than once in his illustrious career, but American Arum &#8211; who promoted him in the past &#8211; does not expect another U-turn from the fighter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I was a betting man I would say he will never fight again,&#8221; Arum told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/p0l49yft\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">5 Live Boxing podcast<\/a> with Steve Bunce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Marvin Hagler had an expression &#8211; &#8216;a rich guy who goes to bed wearing silk pyjamas doesn&#8217;t get up in the morning to do road work&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tyson, really, I don&#8217;t think wants to get up in the morning and do road work and go through the experience of having to train when economically he doesn&#8217;t have to do it any more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the retirement announcement, it has not stopped rivals calling Fury out, or fans speculating about a potential comeback following an appearance of him working out in his personal gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fury has retired five times, including in 2017 amid a dispute with UK Anti-Doping before making his comeback in 2018, and after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/61252420\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">beating Dillian Whyte<\/a> in April 2022, returning later that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0kvpe54ky5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">last three fights<\/a> took place in Saudi Arabia, having last fought in the UK in 2022 when he outclassed compatriot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/63846783\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Derek Chisora<\/a> at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fury has a record of 34 wins, one draw and two defeats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those two losses came against Ukraine&#8217;s Usyk, who ended Fury&#8217;s 15-year unbeaten streak as a professional in their first contest last May, before winning the December rematch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/clyqqw5d2qxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoter Bob Arum believes Tyson Fury will not return to boxing after the heavyweight announced his retirement in January. The 36-year-old Briton made the surprise decision just a few weeks after suffering a second successive loss to WBA (Super), WBC and WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. Fury has retired more than once in his illustrious career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13285,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}