FURY QUITS, BUT DOUBTS REMAIN

Former two-time heavyweight champion has retired before but then made comebacks

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Tyson Fury has, not for the first time, announced his retirement from the boxing ring. But is this really the end of the road for the "Gypsy King"?

The towering 36-year-old British heavyweight called it a day on Jan 13, just weeks after his second straight defeat by Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia.

"Hi everybody, I'm going to make this short and sweet. I'd like to announce my retirement from boxing, it has been a blast, I've loved every single minute of it," he said in a post on social media, apparently filmed inside a vehicle.

Fury enjoyed two stints as the heavyweight world champion and retires with a record of 34 wins, two defeats and one draw. That is if he stays retired.

He has previously announced his exit on a number of occasions, most recently in April 2022. But they all turned out to be short-term absences from the ring and many pundits are sceptical that this really is the end.

Regardless, Fury's promoter, Frank Warren, told the BBC that Fury had become a "world star".

"If you look at some of the fights he's had, he's not been in one fight that hasn't been exciting," he said.