Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Monday January 13, 2025 at 4:35 p.m.
At 36, Briton Tyson Fury, former heavyweight world champion, announced his retirement. Is it the right one, when he already took it in 2022 before returning eight months later?
Tyson Fury leaves the ring! At 36, the English boxer announced this Monday afternoon that he was ending his boxing career, three weeks after his second defeat in eight months against the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk. “Hello everyone, I’ll keep this short and sweet. I would like to announce that I am retiring from boxing, I had a lot of fun, I loved every minute,” the boxer said in a video. The record of his career, which began in 2008, will therefore remain 34 victories, 2 defeats and a draw. World heavyweight champion WBA, WBO, IBO in 2015 and 2016, IBF in 2015 and WBC from 2020 to 2023, Tyson Fury has beaten most of the greatest in his category, whether Derek Chisora, Wladimir Klitschko or Deontay Wilder. The latter forced him to a draw in December 2018 during a fight in Los Angeles for the WBC belt. Only Usyk managed to resist him. After a fight against MMA champion Francis Ngannou won by judges’ decision in October 2023, he agreed to face the Ukrainian to unify the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts. He first lost in May 2024 in Riyadh by decision of the judges, before losing again, still in Riyah, on December 21, this time by unanimous decision.
In 2022, Fury had fallen into depression during his retirement
It was too much for the Wythenshawe native, who decided to put his gloves away. But in April 2022, he had already announced that he would retire after his fight against Dillian Whyte at Wembley. He won by KO… but resumed his career eight months later, with a fight against Derek Chisora, and won again by KO. “I swear to God, after I beat Whyte, I was sure I would never box again. I had never been so sure of something in my entire life. But, then, without boxing, I felt like I no longer had a purpose in life. Life became very dull, very dark. So, I’m not coming back for the money, to win five or twenty-five fights, to unify the world titles, but for my mental health”, declared the “Gypsy King”. What will happen next? this time?
