TYSON FURY HAS set his sights on emulating Wladimir Klitschko’s sustained dominance as the British fighter warned he can remain a world champion until he retires.
Klitschko was the undisputed world champion for over four years until Fury earned a shock win against the Ukrainian in 2015.
Fury was unable to defend those titles amid mental health problems, but he has bounced back impressively.
The 31-year-old wants to stay at the top after regaining his WBC heavyweight belt in February with an emphatic win over Deontay Wilder, who he is due to face again once the coronavirus is subdued.
“I’ve won every single belt in boxing. From the English title to becoming the undisputed heavyweight champ of the world. All done, all finished. Considered the best, done,” Fury told Sky Sports.
“If I don’t box again, I’m happy, but if I do box again, then I continue to box. If we get past this thing, which hopefully we will, then we’re going to keep boxing and just keep taking on contenders.
“Klitschko did it until he was 40. A lot of the great champions are continuing, and continuing.
I ain’t boxing for money, I ain’t boxing for fame, I ain’t boxing for a belt. I’m boxing because it keeps me mentally happy and I like to do it.”
Fury is in contention to face British rival Anthony Joshua, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO world titles, in a 2021 bout after fulfilling his contractual obligations for a third fight with Wilder.
While Fury insists he has nothing to prove, he admitted he doesn’t want to walk away from the ring when he is still at the peak of his game.
“Nothing to prove to anybody. Not one thing to prove at all, but I box now, because I love boxing and I’ve been doing it all my life,” he said.
“Why walk away when I’m still only young?”
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I thought he was only going to fight 2 to 3 more times.
@s mc: I really hope it’s more than 3. There’s a lot of young contenders/pretenders in the HWs at the moment. Hopefully there’s a Fury-AJ (more than once depending on how the first fight goes), Joyce, Dubois, Whyte, Usyk, Ruiz, Pulev, Wilder. There’s a WBSS style tournament there
@Clay Davis: in this order whyte//usek/pulev can’t forget Parker probably toughest boxer in there thought he had the win against whyte , and only if Ruiz jr losses fat puts on muscle he’s very small and adopted a mike Tyson style because he has power in his has hands but very astute fight is lovely jab aswel loose fat stop your partying take it serious might have a chance caught joshua on an off night Joshua nerves anxiety which I know something about can debilitate anyone. Said from day 1 that dilian whyte could knockout/beat wilder few years back before he got popped, started boxing late after few kickboxing fights and few scraps outside if he gets to win a championship reputation still a bit tarnished like canelos, 18 I think still learning on job
@Paddy D: paddy whyte was fully cleared. He’d not done anything wrong. Was complete politics to stop him getting his title shot. Been number one contender for longer than anyone else had been, was basically stripped of that number 1 contender spot even though he’d done absolutely nothing wrong, and hadn’t taken anything illegal. Canelo is a cheat simple as