Tyson Fury has confirmed he is ‘happy’ and ‘content’ with his achievements in boxing and ultimately staying retired.
Fury hung up his gloves in January this year after losing his second consecutive bout to Oleksandr Usyk.
‘The Gypsy King’ has since teased a return to the ring multiple times, but has now put speculation to bed while on holiday with his wife, Paris Fury.
“Good morning people,” he said from a beautiful view of Lake Como in Italy on Saturday.
“I hear a lot of talk about ‘The Gypsy King’ returning to boxing and I ask this question first of all: for what?
“What would I return for? More belts? I’ve won 22 of them. I’ve been rumped, that’s it, fair play to them, they got their use out of me.
“But I’m happy, I am happy, content with what I’ve done, what I have achieved and what I have accomplished.
“I’ve been around the world and back again, and here we are, this is what retirement looks like for the Gypsy King, not too shabby.
“I’m in no rush at all, to come back to boxing and get my face punched in.
“For what? What would I return for? I ask that question. So here we are, I am retired and I am staying retired.
“I have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to return for. God bless you all, and see you on the other side.”
Last month, Fury shook the boxing world when he recorded himself alongside longtime trainer SugarHill Steward in the gym.
He fuelled the fire further this month by posting a clip of him and his dad, John Fury, heading to a ‘business meeting’.
But it all seems to be one big act from ‘The Gypsy King’ who clearly enjoys the talk surrounding his return.
Fury’s update completely derails any hope that he is coming back to face fellow British rival Anthony Joshua.
The pair have gone back and forth for over a decade now and been locked into negotiations on several occasions to no avail.
They came closest to fighting back in 2020 when both men held all four major heavyweight titles between them.
But, a U.S. judge ruled in court that Deontay Wilder was due a trilogy bout with Fury, and this led to the all-British epic showdown being scrapped.
Matchroom Sport Eddie Hearn, who promotes Joshua, was confident the fight can be easily made when speaking to talkSPORT at the end of April
“I do [think it can be easily made],” he said. “In the past, it’s always been: one’s a champion, one’s a challenger.
“Now, both guys are in a similar position: they’re coming off a defeat… Fury has two defeats, both to Oleksandr Usyk.
“They’re both still pretty much in their prime, and as we saw last Saturday, sometimes you don’t need the world championship belt.
“Sometimes when you’ve got two champions trying to become undisputed, it’s a little bit cagey.
“[Conor] Benn vs [Chris] Eubank Jr was just a great example of two guys that just went to war, and that’s exactly what you’d get with AJ against Fury.”
Joshua was shockingly knocked out by Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium last September.
This came six months after ‘AJ’ brutally finished former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in the ring.
Joshua is set to undergo surgery, which is said to have a six-to-eight-week healing process.
Dubois, meanwhile, fights Usyk for the chance to become the first British undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis at Wembley on July 19.
