Tyson Fury revealed his ideal three-fight plan before he retires for good, boxing insider Gareth A. Davies told Boxing Social this week.
Fury’s best wins define his era as he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, then survived and outclassed Deontay Wilder across a brutal trilogy. He’s announced retirement multiple times — after Klitschko, after Wilder III, and again post-2023 — yet keeps returning to the ring, as he does for his April 11 test against Arslanbek Makhmudov atop a Netflix card.
Victory against Makhmudov could spark a two-fight run in which he targets a money fight and a legacy bout, before calling the curtain down on his prizefighting career once again, per Davies.
“He’s admitting he’s getting old in boxing terms,” Davies told Boxing Social. “An obsession and an addiction, probably only three fights left — maximum. And against Makhmudov he has to prove he still has it in his legs [against someone] who still does present problems if he’s not on top of his game.”
On the Makhmudov fight, specifically, Davies expects a top tier performance if the Fury on fight night operates at the same level in the losses to Oleksandr Usyk: “If Tyson is anything like as good as he was against Usyk I think he should dismantle and stop Makhmudov, or outbox him.”
Beyond Makhmudov, Davies said Fury envisions two other bouts — the Battle of Britain against Joshua, and then an Usyk trilogy.
As for Usyk, if Davies had his say, and if Usyk wants, as “the king of the division” to back that title, he “should be [fighting] Agit Kabayel, Fabio Wardley, and Moses Itauma, in my view, given his standing in the heavyweight division.”
Usyk, though, is taking on the kickboxing icon Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza.
“As Tyson said, he’s come to terms with the two losses to Oleksandr Usyk, and said, ‘I need to knock him out to beat him,” Davies said, before adding, as Fury, “And I’d have knocked him out already in 24 rounds if I was going to knock him out, because I don’t think I can get a decision against him’.”
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