Tyson Fury says he’s decided today to remain retired moderately than to “tempt fate’ to return to the ring. The previous two-time heavyweight champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) states that he’s 100% retired from the game, leaving it along with his faculties “so as” after 17 years as an expert.
No More Tempting Fate
The 37-year-old ‘Gypsy King’ brags about having won every belt, made tons of money, and never got “not a scratch” on him. He doesn’t wish to take any probabilities where he can still walk in a straight line. I remember how Fury was knocked cold by Deontay Wilder in 2018. He needed to have gotten a scratch in that one.
Fury’s decision to retire now implies that the mega-paydays that he would have received for 2 to 3 “Battle of Britain” fights against Anthony Joshua and a trilogy match with Oleksandr Usyk will now not be happening.
“The Gypsy King is dead. I don’t wish to tempt fate, you recognize what I mean, I don’t wish to keep going back and back and back to the world because how again and again are you able to keep doing it without getting brain damage,” said Tyson Fury to Furocity about his decision to remain retired.
There’s a robust possibility that if Fury had chosen to proceed fighting for one more five years, he’d have ended his profession with a net value of $500 million, possibly much more if he were ambitious enough to fight 3 times a 12 months.
Why One other $100M Won’t Matter
Tyson sees continuing his profession as “pointless.” He has a net value of $160 million now, but he says that adding one other “100 million’ won’t change his life. He says that being “wealthy” hasn’t made him “joyful.”
“Like if you happen to give me one other 100 million, what am I going to do with it? Prefer it’s not going to affect my life in any respect.”
In fact, the wealth has given Fury time to do leisure things that he wouldn’t have had time to do if he were still poor and compelled to work 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days every week, to support himself.
Fury doesn’t know what it’s prefer to be poor, since he’s been making good money as a professional since he first began playing. Obviously, not tens of millions at first, but he was receiving a decent income from 2008 attributable to his talent.
“I believed like, oh, being wealthy and being famous and being successful and having every little thing you ever wanted, you’d make you’re feeling higher,” said Fury.
The Hard Reality – By Olly Campbell
It feels like Fury doesn’t know how one can enjoy his money the way in which some people do. He’s not living it up in luxury mansions in Essex within the UK, round the corner to promoter Eddie Hearn. He’s made a ton of cash because it is.
The way in which Tyson looked in his last three fights against Oleksandr Usyk [twice] and Francis Ngannou, the probabilities of him winning any of his fights against Joshua, Usyk, and or Moses Itauma, are slim. He would make an absurd amount of cash, but wouldn’t enjoy it.
Fury seems more into living a frugal life. He has the identical mindset because the late billionaire John D. Rockefeller. It’s not in him to be a person about town, flashing his money, buying expensive cars, mansions and garments to impress people he’ll never know.
“It doesn’t really matter if you happen to drive a Ferrari or a Fiat 500. You may think people care, but nobody gives, and nobody cares,” said Fury.
Last Updated on 10/23/2025