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By Lawrence Agbo
Tyson Fury claimed that his return to boxing was motivated by the deaths of two of his longtime adversary Anthony Joshua’s friends in a car accident in December.
Fury will step back into the ring on April 11 after a 15-month absence to face Russian-born heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov in a bout at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
After losing against Oleksandr Usyk for the second time in a row at the end of 2024, the 37-year-old retired and waited a full year before making his most recent appearance on January 4.
The announcement was made one week after Joshua, a fellow countryman, was slain in an automobile accident in Nigeria that claimed the lives of his close friends Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami.
“Tomorrow might not ever come and I suppose the biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua,” Fury said on Monday.
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“You should never put things off until tomorrow, or next year, or next week because tomorrow is not promised to nobody.”
Plans for a last showdown between Fury and Joshua in 2026 have been shelved.
Additionally, two-time world heavyweight champion Fury asserted that he had returned to the ring in an effort to inject some glitz into the sport.
“The truth of the matter is I came back for one reason only and that’s to make boxing great again,” Tyson Fury added.
“Since I’ve retired for the fifth time over a year ago, boxing for me has gone on a downward slope and it’s become quite boring.”
