Eddie Hearn doesn’t believe we’ve seen the last of Tyson Fury. The WBC heavyweight champion impressed last weekend as he dominated Dillian Whyte before securing a sixth-round stoppage inside a packed Wembley Stadium.
In the immediate aftermath of his latest victory, Fury hinted at retirement, but Hearn is adamant that’s an option Fury won’t take. With super fights against the likes of Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk still on the table, Fury has plenty of options left in boxing, and Hearn is taking his latest exit talk very lightly.
“I don’t really believe anything he says, but he’s also capable of doing anything,” said Hearn when speaking on The MMA Hour.
“If he wants to walk away from boxing, good on him. He’s made a lot of money, he’s won the championship, and if he’s happy doing that, good luck to him. I just feel that his biggest fights are in front of him, the real, career-defining, legacy-defining stuff.
"There’s a lot of talk at the moment about him being a generational great and better than Lennox Lewis and these fighters of the past, he may be, but ain’t got the resume to prove it yet. But he could do. If he beats ‘AJ,’ if he beats Usyk, or certainly the winner of that fight, he goes down as an undisputed champion, a Lennox Lewis style, legacy, generational great.”