Undefeated WBC and The Ring heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, is planning on calling it a career following his bout with interim WBC champ, Dillian Whyte, this Saturday in London, England.
Top Rank correspondent Adam Smith spoke with Fury at yesterday's media workouts for this weekend's event and made it pretty clear that this fight with Whyte would be the last of his legendary career, explaining he's got nothing left to prove to anybody.
“I’ve got nothing to prove to anybody," Fury said (h/t Bad Left Hook). "I’m just there to have fun, take in the atmosphere, and enjoy the night. It’s the final farewell. It’s been a long old ride, it’s quite emotional, to be honest. All this, the ride of, like, starting as a little kid and wanting to be heavyweight champion, and then to finally be hanging up the gloves. And I know nobody believes me because they all think I’m after money or whatever else — there’s only a certain amount of people who know that money don’t mean nothing to me. I’m walking away. I have nothing to prove to nobody. I’ve done what I had to do. That’s it. Win, lose or draw on Saturday night, we put up a good fight and we go home. That’s it. That’s the way I’ve been feeling. I said to (my wife), before the last Deontay Wilder fight, we was both in the room upstairs in the house in Vegas, and I said, “This is it. This is the last one now with Wilder. I don’t think there will be anymore.’ And she said, ‘Thank God for that.’ And after the fight, we got the opportunity to do a big one at home with Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium, so it’s an opportunity that you don’t pass up. It’s the (national) stadium and it’s a massive, massive event. The biggest crowd that Wembley’s ever had in it for any sporting event, I believe. I was always planning to walk away, and here we are, walk away. The great Julius Caesar said, ‘There will always be somebody else to fight.’ There will be. There’s a million young guys coming up. I can’t go on forever, just like Wladimir (Klitschko) couldn’t, Joe Louis and Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis before me. Every good dog has his day and that’s it.”
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