By Terence Dooley
Heavyweight world Champion Tyson Fury (25-0 18 KOs) has proven adept at staying among the headlines following his decision win over former Champion Wladimir Klitschko in November. Fury told the BBC that he is considering retirement earlier this week, citing the fact it will be hard to top dethroning Klitschko in Germany if he did box again.
BoxingScene, though, has been told to ignore the claims by a Team Fury insider who reached out to us to dismiss the news.
Indeed, the Morecambe-based 27-year-old told BoxingScene that he intends to lead a new, exciting heavyweight era when discussing past and present eras the day before his BBC interview.
“You had an era in the 1980s that people forgot about,” he recalled. “No one knows a lot of those names, do they? You had [Greg] Page, Pinklon Thomas and all that lot—the lost heavyweight era.
“It was a time after Holmes that was dull until [Mike] Tyson came along, just like the era we had recently. We had [Lennox] Lewis then the Klitschko era, now it is my era and that of all the fighters coming up. I always said I would start a new era, this is why Klitschko avoided me for years.”
A contracted rematch with Klitschko means that there is a lot of money on the table for Fury, and further fights against the division’s best would bring home a lot of bacon.
Such is the fighter’s mercurial nature fight fans can probably expect a few more retirement teases, but Fury also stated that his team are still working on the rematch so it is highly likely that we will see him in the ring at some point in 2016 and beyond.
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