Tyson Fury has named Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno and The Rock as doable opponents for exhibition fights within the close to future.
After beating Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in April, Fury has repeatedly insisted he's now retired from prime stage boxing.
However in an interview with Queensberry Promotions on Tuesday, ‘The Gypsy King’ mentioned he'll return sooner or later so long as the supply is correct – with changing into undisputed heavyweight champion the remaining problem in an illustrious profession.
Within the meantime, Fury is firmly on board with profitable exhibition bouts having already held talks over a gathering with UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou.
The 33-year-old has additionally talked up the opportunity of preventing Vitali or Wladimir Klitschko beneath exhibition guidelines and has now added three different heavyweight greats to that record in Tyson, Lewis and Bruno – together with Hollywood star and WWE icon Dwayne Johnson.
‘I’m going to do some exhibition matches which aren't actual fights,’ Fury informed Good Morning Britain.
‘Purely for the leisure issue. This isn't skilled boxing, that is pure leisure, Hollywood-style leisure. Nothing extra, nothing much less.’
He continued: ‘I’m taking a look at preventing Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno, whoever! The Rock, that might be unbelievable. You by no means know who we could possibly be preventing.’
Mike Tyson, who Fury was named after, retired from skilled boxing in 2005 however returned for an exhibition contest in opposition to Roy Jones Jr in 2019.
The 55-year-old was in talks to tackle fellow heavyweight legends Lewis and Evander Holyfield final yr just for talks to fall although. Most lately, there was hypothesis he may both Jake or Logan Paul.
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