Tyson Fury: I was happily retired, but there’s nothing like a UK stadium fight | 'Makhmudov's in trouble!'

Tyson Fury keeps trying to quit boxing. Yet, of course, just when he’s out, it pulls him back in.

Fury insists he never meant to come back to boxing. Yet nevertheless on April 11 his brief retirement will come to an end when he fights Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

At the start of 2025, still smarting after his two losses to Oleksandr Usyk, Fury announced he was finished with the sport.

It's by no means the first time Fury has retired and then reversed course, but he is adamant it was not pre-planned.

He was travelling in Thailand at the end of last year, he stepped up his training and events took on their own momentum. He's still in Thailand, only now deep in camp for a fight that's three weeks away.

This return, he maintains, wasn't inevitable. It was on impulse.