Tyson Fury has vowed to proceed preventing after Saturday’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury has banished ideas of retirement, telling Sky Sports activities: “I am not fascinated about all that stuff. That stuff’s for the lame! I am prepared for motion. Assured satisfaction.
“I do enjoy being in the ring and I enjoy just being around the fight week and I enjoy all of it. It’s all very good stuff for me. I love every minute of it. Hence the reason I’m still doing it at 36 years old.”
He is filled with confidence that he’ll defeat Usyk once they battle on the Riyadh Season occasion, reside on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace.
Fury has confined himself to a coaching camp in Malta within the weeks constructing as much as this rematch, decreasing the dimensions of his help crew, not even talking to his personal spouse, so centered have his preparations been.
Days away from the competition, he’s satisfied he has finished every little thing he must with the intention to beat Usyk, win the WBO, WBA and WBC titles and change into a three-time world heavyweight champion.
“I’m in very good spirits and I’m in beast mode ready to do the job,” Fury insisted.
“It’s been good. It’s been a tough camp, a tough, hard training camp. I’ve left no stones unturned and I’m really ready for Saturday night. Can’t wait.”
Promoter Frank Warren revealed that if Usyk loses this rematch, he’s dedicated to a 3rd bout with the Briton.
“If Tyson wins, it’s contracted,” Warren mentioned of the trilogy battle. “Unless anybody retires.
“If he does not, then Usyk can have the belts and what an ideal unification that might be between him and Daniel [Dubois, the IBF champion].”
However defeat may nonetheless lead Fury to a serious battle together with his British rival Anthony Joshua, who suffered a crushing fifth-round defeat to Dubois in September.
“It’s up to him. Who knows what he wants to do? If he wants to fight Joshua, if it’s there, it’s there. If it’s not it’s not,” Warren mentioned.
“After the last fight, people would still buy into it, there’s no doubt about it.”
Fury did really feel some sympathy for Joshua after that knockout loss. “I did feel a little bit sorry for him,” he informed Sky Sports activities.
“But it’s boxing. I suppose you know what you’re getting yourself into before you go into the game. You know what you’re doing.”
However that pity is unlikely to dissuade him finally from taking the Joshua battle in future. “I’m motivated by the big pay cheques and the big crowds and the big events,” he mentioned.
“And all the time that that’s happening, I suppose I will be continuing to do what I need to do as well.”
Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury’s large heavyweight rematch will probably be reside on Saturday December 21 on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace. Guide Usyk v Fury 2 now!