Tyson Fury Next Fights as Superstar Boxer Has 2 Bouts Lined up in 2026
Tyson Fury will bust out of his short-lived retirement from boxing to compete in at least two separate fights in 2026.
That’s according to Ring Magazine, who posted information on the 12th of December regarding Fury’s return to the ring, where he’ll fight, and against whom.
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‘The Gypsy King’ won the English heavyweight title in 2009, British championship in 2011, and, with his decision win over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, he added the WBA, IBF, and WBO world titles to his honor roll, too. Since then, he went 2-0-1 in an all-time great trilogy with Deontay Wilder, but disappeared into retirement after suffering back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk.
Now, it’s becoming increasingly clear that he’s not really retired, and that he’ll be fighting once again in the coming months.
Fury has not competed for 12 months, since he dropped his second successive defeat to Usyk at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, he is widely expected to return to the ring in the coming months to take part in the 2026 Riyadh Season against a to-be-determined opponent, before heading into a Battle of Britain showdown against long-time career rival Anthony Joshua, under the Riyadh Season banner, perhaps at Wembley Stadium in London — home of the England national football team.
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Though the AJ bout appears set, with those around the sport’s financier Turki Alalshikh continually nodding to his desire to make that bout a reality, it is unclear as to whom Fury will fight first in his reported tune-up. It’s unlikely, for instance, that he’ll fight anyone with a considerable chance to defeat him, which could then scupper the blockbuster bout later in the year. This rules out an Usyk trilogy, and perhaps even the tougher contenders like Fabio Wardley, Daniel Dubois, and even fast-rising 20-year-old Moses Itauma.
With his links to Top Rank, there could be an opportunity to match Fury against America’s diminutive slugger Richard Torrez Jr, or even Jared Anderson, but due to Fury’s alleged inability to enter the United States, it limits the suitable countries that could host the event. Zhilei Zhang, a Riyadh Season boxer himself, could also be a reasonable pick. As could Andy Ruiz Jr, who famously inflicted one of the more humiliating losses on Joshua’s career, which could only help momentum should Fury manhandle the Mexican.
