Tyson Fury’s promoter, Frank Warren, has said that it’s ‘too raw’ to discuss where his fighter goes following the collapse of negotiations with Oleksandr Usyk, and hasn’t ruled out retirement.
The talks commenced last December and stumbled a few times over the months before eventually falling fatally this week.
Usyk – who holds the WBA, WBO and IBF belt to Fury’s WBC – told his team to ‘pull the plug’ after what they felt was one demand too many.
Whilst it has been confirmed that the Ukrainian will now fulfil his WBA mandatory against another Warren fighter in Daniel Dubois, Fury is without an opponent.
The promoter told Seconds Out that the conversation on what’s next hasn’t taken place yet, meaning that fans are highly unlikely to see Fury fight on April 29 at Wembley Stadium.
“Tyson’s a bit p’d of because obviously he’s been in training constantly. He’s got his trainer in. It’s not a conversation [we’ve had yet.] Everything’s too raw at the moment. We’ll work it out. Listen, he may retire – I don’t know what he wants to do. He’ll do whatever he wants to do.”
“Tyson’s a very philosophical guy, and he will do whatever he choses to do. And whatever he chooses to do, I’m there with him.”
The WBC recently said that Fury, as champion, had no current obligations to defend his belt. This comes after the number one and number two challengers – Deontay Wilder and Andy Ruiz Jr – were ordered to fight a final eliminator.
Both fighters largely ignored the sanctioning body, and a fight between them seems to have made very little progress. Fury last fought a mandatory back in April of 2022 – a sixth round knockout of Dillian Whyte.
Fury went into an extremely short, and many consider false, retirement following that victory. He emerged later in the year to face Derek Chisora for a third time in his career after failed talks to fight Anthony Joshua.