Tyson Fury confirms retirement U-turn and predicts Oleksandr Usyk will beat Anthony Joshua again

Tyson Fury is ready to end his brief retirement and says he looking to make ‘something big, big, big’ happen in the ring, though he is not thinking about a unification fight until Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk have had their rematch.

The Gypsy King knocked out Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in April to retain his WBC heavyweight title, claiming afterwards that he had decided to walk away from the sport.

However, after several weeks of teasing a potential return, Fury has now confirmed his intention to continue fighting and could even have an exhibition match while he waits to see who emerges victorious in Joshua’s rematch with Usyk.

‘We’ve got very exciting news coming, I think the world’s been waiting for a plan of action,’ Fury said in an interview with promoter Frank Warren on Tuesday on the latter’s Queensberry Promotions YouTube channel. ‘We had a long conversation about lots of stuff, and Frank, do you wanna take it from here?’

Warren then took over, saying: ‘We looked at a couple of scenarios, I spoke to Tyson again today, and we’ve hopefully come up with something that Tyson wants to do. We were talking about various scenarios, maybe an exhibition bout – we don’t know, but something will come out of it.

‘Once Tyson’s happy, then I’ll be happy, and whatever’s gonna be will be. It goes without saying that the public will want to see Tyson back in the ring, where he’s king. I wanna see that.

‘I get where Tyson is, and I understand what he’s said, and people decide they’re gonna retire and come back in a couple of years’ time. I like fellas to fight when they’re in their prime, and for me, Tyson Fury isn’t in his prime [yet]. I’m sure we’re gonna have some good news that we can be announcing fairly soon.’

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