FORMER UNDISPUTED WORLD heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is set to return to the ring as soon as next April according to his uncle and trainer Peter Fury.
The self-proclaimed ‘Gypsy King’ [25-0, 18KOs] last fought when he dethroned long-reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko this month two years ago, and has been out of the ring since due to mental health issues.
After a rematch with Klitschko twice fell through in early 2016, Fury admitted to substance abuse and has licence rescinded by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Fury has since been granted permission to take out a new licence under the British board, but must first settle his differences with UK Anti-Doping, who maintain he failed a drugs test stemming back to early 2015.
In recent weeks, the former Irish champion has publicly stated that he will return to the ring in a bid to reclaim his status as the world’s best heavyweight fighter, with prospective rival and new kingpin Anthony Joshua demanding he do so in a recent tweet.
& @Tyson_Fury get fit you fat fuck
— Anthony Joshua (@anthonyfjoshua) November 9, 2017
The 29-year-old Mancunian will first have to shed much of the weight he’s accrued during his hiatus, but when asked of his potential comeback bout, his trainer and uncle suggested it might come sooner than expected.
“I think April of next year,” Peter Fury told BBC Sport.
The only fear is that Joshua doesn’t get beat beforehand. That’s the fight the public want to see, that’s the fight Tyson really wants. And he really thinks that’s the fight that should be made.
Peter Fury was then asked if his nephew, who became the first man since Lamon Brewster in 2004 to beat Klitschko, rated any of his soon-to-be rivals in the division, responding: “I don’t think so, no.”
The former IBF, WBA and WBO World champion has since posted footage of himself partaking in some light pad work in the gym.
Still got it, the dancing 💃 master also the 🤡 🙏🏻👍🏻😊😊🙏🏻 https://t.co/ocuTm2uPZy
— TYSON2FASTFURY (@Tyson_Fury) November 13, 2017
Fury vowed to return to the top of the pile in a recent ‘open letter’ he penned to the now-retired Wladimir Klitschko, in which he sounded a warning to Klitschko’s last conqueror Anthony Joshua.
“Wladimir I don’t get why you’re so bitter about your loss to the Gypsy King,” Fury wrote. “[You're] Always banging on about your loss to AJ and how great he is, at the end of they day you lost to AJ by TKO in what was a 50-50 fight right until the end.
“In our fight you couldn’t land any punches and I made you miss and really played games in there. But yet you say AJ is better, I know you won’t admit the truth to the world but in your mind you know the truth and so does Vitali!
I wouldn’t expect anything more from you guys, but deep down you know what happened in there and by the way I’m going to deal with your little brother AJ in the same fashion as I dealt with you, play with the bitch.
“Kind regards the champ.
“P.S. I’ll be haunting your nightmares forever Dr Klitschko and you will always know that you could never beat the fat Gypsy.”
Open letter to Dr @KIitschko @NataKlitschko @wklitschkofans pic.twitter.com/ltDUinPOfb
— TYSON2FASTFURY (@Tyson_Fury) November 11, 2017
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