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Tyson Fury plans return: 'There's only one man' to fight winner of Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua

Alexander Netherton
Tyson Fury plans return: 'There's only one man' to fight winner of Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony JoshuaGettyImages

Tyson Fury will return to the ring but wants a big payday to do so.

Fury claimed he was retiring from professional boxing after defeating Dillian Whyte as he defended his WBC strap this April.

He suggested he could fight UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in a ‘hybrid rules’ exhibition event, but others have speculated he may get back to professional boxing if he got the chance to meet the winner of Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua to become undisputed heavyweight champion.

Speaking on YouTube, Fury said: "We've got some very exciting news coming, I think the world's been waiting for our plan of action.

"We had a nice bit of Italian down in London, we had a long conversation about lots of stuff and… Frank do you want to take it from here?"

Warren continued: "We've looked at a couple of scenarios. I spoke to Tyson again today, and we're hopefully going to come up with something that Tyson wants to do. We've talked about various scenarios.

"Maybe an exhibition bout, we don't know. Something will come out of it. Once Tyson is happy, then I'll be happy, and whatever is going to be will be.

"There's obviously a lot of things to talk about, and the public will want to see Tyson Fury back in the ring, where he's the king. I want to see that.

"I get where Tyson is and what he's said, people retire and come back in a couple of years, I like fellas to fight when they're in their prime, and for me Tyson Fury isn't at his prime [yet]. That performance last time out was something else, but we're going to have a good chat and I'm sure we're going to have some good news we can announce fairly soon."

Fury agreed, saying: "One hundred per cent, like Jerry Maguire said, Frank, 'Show me the money!'

"If anybody can show me the money, I put a moniker on Frank Warren years ago, I called him the 'Magic Man'. Because if he can bring somebody back from absolutely dead, like he did with me, he must have magic.

"We're going to make something big, big happen."

Fury suggested an undisputed clash is not in the works yet.

"There's something to be really excited about, but it doesn't involve Usyk or Joshua at this moment," Fury said.

"I will make a decision on all this. I've only just fought, not even three months ago. I wouldn't be expected to fight until October, November, December anyway.

"I've got no mandatories coming up. No one is rushing me to do anything.

"When this middleweight knocks out this bodybuilder again, there's only going to be one man to sort this absolute circus out, isn't there?

"What I would say to the people who want this fight to happen, you better have a big cheque book, because to bring the big 'GK' (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's going to cost if you want me to do a mission on this middleweight and show you what a real heavyweight does to him.

"That's going to be expensive, you're going to have to have big pockets, and we can even talk then. Until [they fight], I'm going to stay in Morecambe, training like a lunatic."

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