Tyson Fury retired 12 months ago but recently announced he will return to the ring as he seeks a third reign as heavyweight world champion
Carl Froch has told Tyson Fury there is no point coming out of retirement.
Fury retired 12 months ago but recently announced he will return to the ring as he seeks a third reign as heavyweight world champion. He is expected to fight again in April in a warm-up bout before setting his sights on a world title shot. His first-choice opponent had been Anthony Joshua but the Brit is recovering from injuries he suffered in a fatal car crash last month,
Fury could instead face champion Fabio Wardley who was upgraded to full champion in December when Oleksandr Usyk gave up his belt rather than face the Ipswich heavyweight. But as Fury prepares for his comeback in Thailand, former super-middleweight world champion Froch dismissed his return.
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“Coming back into boxing at 37 years old, when he has been out for over a year, is anybody bothered?” he said on his YouTube channel. “Does anybody care? I don’t want to slander him because it’s Tyson Fury and he is great; he has been a great servant to boxing.
“He is a brilliant character, and I don’t want to give him any stick but I’m not f***ing a***d if he comes back to boxing or not. I’m not bothered; I don’t care anymore. He has retired five times. When he retired last, I knew that he was going to come back out of retirement. I think that the only reason that he should be coming back and the only fight worth looking at would be the ‘AJ’ fight.
“There is an argument that Fury lost to [Francis] Ngannou, there’s one loss, but he got the decision, then he lost twice to Oleksandr Usyk. There are three fights there where he has been beat, really, and now he is coming back after over a year out, it doesn’t make any sense, it’s pointless.
“If you’re going to come back and fight and try to be a top boy, and you want to get back into the mix at world level, jump in there with someone like Moses Itauma or [Agit] Kabayel.”
