{"id":130690,"date":"2025-05-25T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130690\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T13:03:10","slug":"anthony-joshua-refuses-to-rule-out-tyson-fury-fight-despite-rivals-recent-retirement-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/130690\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua refuses to rule out Tyson Fury fight despite rival’s recent retirement statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua is hopeful of one day sharing the ring with Tyson Fury despite ‘The Gypsy King’ insisting he will remain retired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday, Fury told his 6.7million Instagram followers that he is ‘happy’ and ‘content’<\/a> with his decision to hang up his gloves.<\/p>\n

\"Victory<\/a><\/p>\n

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Victory for ‘AJ’ could solidify his position as the best British heavyweight of this eraCredit: GETTY<\/p>\n

Hours later, AJ took to Snapchat to upload a picture of himself watching Fury box, with the caption: \u201cOne of these days, it will be me standing in the opposite corner, ready and fully charged spiritually.”<\/p>\n

Fury called time on his career in January following back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, a series of social media posts suggested he could be on the verge of a comeback.<\/p>\n

Last week, he revealed he was attending a ‘business meeting’ with his father, John Fury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And one month prior, he had uploaded a video of himself and long-time trainer SugarHill Steward in the gym together.<\/p>\n

But Fury put an end to the speculation over the weekend while on holiday with his wife, Paris Fury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Good morning, people,” he said from a beautiful view of Lake Como in Italy.<\/p>\n

“I hear a lot of talk about ‘The Gypsy King’ returning to boxing and I ask this question first of all: for what?<\/p>\n

“What would I return for? More belts? I\u2019ve won 22 of them. I\u2019ve been rumped, that\u2019s it, fair play to them, they got their use out of me.<\/p>\n

“But I\u2019m happy, I am happy, content with what I’ve done, what I have achieved and what I have accomplished.<\/p>\n

\"Joshua<\/a><\/p>\n

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Joshua isn’t giving up on the Fury fight just yetCredit: Snapchat – Anthony Joshua <\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been around the world and back again, and here we are, this is what retirement looks like for the Gypsy King, not too shabby.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m in no rush at all to come back to boxing and get my face punched in.<\/p>\n

“For what? What would I return for? I ask that question. So here we are, I am retired and I am staying retired.<\/p>\n

“I have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to return for. God bless you all, and see you on the other side.”<\/p>\n

British boxing fans have been clamouring to see Fury and Joshua exchange leather for the best part of 9 years.<\/p>\n

The pair have been in negotiations several times, but nothing has ever come to fruition.<\/p>\n

\"Fury<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fury retired after losing to Usyk for a second time on pointsCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The closest they came to sharing the ring together was four years ago when the Brits held all four major sanctioning body belts between them.<\/p>\n

Both parties reached an agreement for a two-fight deal, with the first meeting set to take place in Saudi Arabia in August 2021.<\/p>\n

However, a judge in a US court ruled that Deontay Wilder<\/a> was entitled to a third fight with Fury, thus derailing their plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua is hopeful of one day sharing the ring with Tyson Fury despite ‘The Gypsy King’ insisting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[5060,1935,4496,79,8311,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-130690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-anthony-joshua","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tyson-fury","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114568613396778248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}