Undefeated WBC and The Ring heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, is planning on calling it a careāer following his bout with interim WšBC champ, Dillian Whyte, this Saturday in London, England.
Top Rank correspondent Adam Smith spoke with Fury at yesterday's media workouts for this weekend's event and made it pretty clź§ear that this fight with Whyte would be the last of his legendary career, explaining he's got nothing left to š“prove to anybody.
āIāve got nothing to prove to anybody," Fury said (h/t ). "Iām just there to have fun, take in the atmosphere, and enjoy the night. Itās the final farewell. Itās been a long old ride, itās quite emotional, to be honest. All this, the ride of, like, starting as a little kid and wanting to be heavyweight champion, and then to finally be hanging up the gloves. And I know nobody believes me because they all think Iām after money or whatever else ā thereās only a certain amount of people who know that money donāt mean nothing to me. Iām walking away. I have nothing to prove to nobody. Iāve done what I had to do. Thatās it. Win, lose or draw on Saturday night, we put up a good fight and we go home. Thatās it. Thatās the way Iāve been feeling. I said to (my wife), before the last Deontay Wilder fight, we was both in the room upstairs in the house in Vegas, and I said, āThis is it. This is the last one now with Wilder. I donāt think there will be anymore.ā And she said, āThank God for that.ā And after the fight, we got the opportunity to do a big one at home with Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium, so itās an opportunity that you donāt pass up. Itās the (national) stadium and itās a massive, massive event. The biggest crowd that Wembleyās ever had in it for any sporting event, I believe. I was always planning to walk away, and here we are, walk away. The great Julius Caesar said, āThere will always be somebody else to fight.ā There will be. Thereās a million young guys coming up. I canāt go on forever, just like Wladimir (Klitschko) couldnāt, Joe Louis and Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis before me. Every good dog has his day and thatās it.ā
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