Tyson Fury is ready to fight again, after a retirement which lasted less than two short months.
Not many boxing experts believed ‘The Gypsy King’ when he said he was calling time on his glittering career while still unbeaten and at the absolute peak of his powers.
His decision, after that sixth-round knockout of fellow Brit Dillian Whyte on April 23, would have seen the Morecambe man retire with a 32-0-1 professional record and the WBC, Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles.
Fury confirms retirement U-turn
Now though, just 52 days later, the 33-year-old superstar confirmed he may fight again - hopefully against the winner of that upcoming Oleksandr Usyk vs Anthony Joshua rematch.
Joshua lost his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles to Usyk at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last September, and is expected to get his shot at revenge in Saudi Arabia in August.
A unification match vs either Usyk or Joshua would be enormous for Tyson Fury - and would see boxing crown its first undisputed world heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis back in 1999.
Clearly the lure of that potential career payday and defining fight would be too great for Tyson to turn down, and he confirmed his readiness to take on the challenge in a video which appeared on the YouTube channel of his promoter Queensberry Promotions.
Fury said: “We have some very exciting news coming. I think the world has been waiting for a plan of action.”
Fury right now clearly believes that Usyk will again defeat Joshua, and says he expects a massive purse to take on the unbeaten Ukrainian
“When this middleweight knocks out this bodybuilder there will only be one man to sort this absolute circus out.
Time to open the cheque book
“What I would say to the people who want this fight to happen is: you better have a big cheque book, because to bring the big Gypsy King out of retirement to redeem this country - yet again - it’s going to cost.
“I am a prize fighter and I do fight for prizes but it is going to cost if you want me to do a mission on this middleweight and show what a real heavyweight does to them.
“And that will be expensive, they will need deep pockets and then we can talk but not before the Usyk vs Joshua fight happens first, because it is pointless before.”