(Reuters) – WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury mentioned he was “over” boxing, but could be tempted to return to the ring for 500 million pounds ($611.20 million).
Fury knocked out fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in April to retain his title earlier than telling followers he can be sticking to his promise to his spouse to retire.
“I received the whole lot, so a warrior can do what a warrior needs to do,” Fury informed https://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2022/06/18/tyson-fury-exclusive-boxing-done-everything-asked the Daily Telegraph on Saturday. “But the precise man is finished with preventing.
“Boxing — {and professional} preventing — I’m so over it … I’ve carried out the whole lot that was requested of me, defeated each opponent I’ve ever confronted and to have the ability to have a life after that — is not that tremendous and a phenomenal factor?”
When requested how a lot cash would must be concerned to tempt him into making a return, Fury mentioned “500 million pounds”.
“So if any person needs to pay that, I’m positive there’s individuals on the market with much more than that, then I’ll return. But till that day, kaput, I’m out. And if somebody needs to waste half a billion, I suppose my morality will likely be examined.”
In April, Fury’s spouse, Paris, mentioned the 33-year-old may return for an undisputed world title combat towards the winner of Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
($1 = 0.8181 pounds)
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
