TYSON FURY

Tyson Fury has suggested he will retire after retaining his WBC heavyweight title.

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has retained his WBC title with a sixth-round stoppage of fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in front of more than 94,000 spectators at London’s Wembley Stadium.

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury retained his WBC title with a brutal sixth-round stoppage of fellow Briton Dillian Whyte in front of more than 94,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. A right uppercut from Fury sent Whyte to the canvas and the champion raised his right hand in celebration. Whyte, who appeared to lose a tooth from the mighty punch, got to his feet and tried to show he was ready to continue but then staggered, leading the referee to end the fight.

World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has declined to discuss the sudden closure of a management company that has worked with him on promoting fights.

Tyson Fury will defend his WBC heavyweight title against Dillian Whyte in the UK this spring after promoter Frank Warren won a purse bid for the bout.

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"I'm a sportsman. I went over to him to show some love and respect and he didn't want to give it back," Tyson Fury said.

"It was a great fight," said Fury, the sport's lineal heavyweight champion and a former unified world champ.

Tyson Fury retains his WBC heavyweight crown with a spectacular 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder as their trilogy fight delivered a boxing classic.

Tyson Fury got up from two fourth-round knockdowns and stopped Deontay Wilder in the 11th round Saturday night.

After three fights featuring nine combined knockdowns and many unforgettable moments, Tyson Fury finally ended his epic heavyweight rivalry with Deontay Wilder with one last valedictory punch. Fury got up from two fourth-round knockdowns and stopped Wilder with a devastating right hand in the 11th round Saturday night, retaining his WBC title in a thrilling conclusion to a superlative boxing trilogy. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) finished Wilder for the second straight time in their three bouts, but only after a back-and-forth evening featuring five combined knockdowns and several apparent moments of imminent defeat for both men.

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Fury, 33, is the favorite to win the fight in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Oleksandr Usyk is heading home for a hero’s reception in Ukraine after becoming world heavyweight champion after just three fights in the division by beating Anthony Joshua.

A person with knowledge of the situation says heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has tested positive for COVID-19, and his third bout with Deontay Wilder will be postponed likely until the fall.

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has signed a contract to fight Deontay Wilder for a third time.

Canelo Alvarez added another title belt in the super middleweight division, handing Billy Joe Saunders his first loss when the English boxer didn’t come out for the ninth round.

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World Heavyweight boxing champion Britain's Anthony Joshua lands a blow on challenger Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev during their Heavyweight title fight at Wembley Arena in London Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. (Andrew Couldridge/Pool via AP)LONDON – By rediscovering the thrill of a brutal knockout, Anthony Joshua cleared the way to a shot at being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. It wasn’t long before the inevitable question was thrown at him: is WBC champion Tyson Fury next in what would be an all-British blockbuster to unify the four titles in boxing’s marquee division? “We know what we have to do starting from tomorrow: to make the Tyson Fury fight straightaway,” Hearn said, a big grin on his face. “I want the fight, I want the fight next,” said Fury, who was wearing a Christmas sweater for the occasion.

LONDON – Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and challenger Kubrat Pulev jawed at each other through black face masks Friday on the eve of their title fight at Wembley Arena. Joshua pointed a finger in Pulev's face as they exchanged words while beefy security guards kept the peace during their weigh-in for Saturday's bout. During the exchange, Pulev twice readjusted his mask after it slipped below his nose, and Joshua’s mask also drooped low at one point. Pulev appears to be the only hurdle Joshua needs to clear before a shot at being the undisputed world heavyweight champion. First, Joshua must take care of business against the hardened Pulev, who didn't wait for Saturday to get things started.

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Tyson Fury (L) punches Deontay Wilder during their Heavyweight bout for Wilder's WBC and Fury's lineal heavyweight title on February 22, 2020 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. "The king has returned to his throne," proclaimed Fury, who fought to a draw with Wilder in their first fight. Fury dropped Wilder in the third round with a right hand that seemed to take the legs out of the champion. Two judges had Fury winning every round, while the third gave Wilder one round. That was unlike the first fight 14 months ago when Wilder knocked Fury down twice on his way to a draw.

Bob Arum, CEO of boxing promotion company Top Rank, said the upcoming fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury could be the highest-grossing heavyweight title fight of all-time. The highest-grossing pay-per-view heavyweight fight ever was Mike Tyson vs. Lennox Lewis in 2002, which grossed roughly $110 million. The other pay-per-view heavyweight fight to gross close to that amount is the second Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield bout in 1997, which grossed approximately $100 million, according to Business Insider. Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s defeat of then-UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor in 2017 was the highest-grossing boxing fight of all-time, generating roughly $500 million in pay-per-view sales. In a recent interview with ESPN, Porter took issue with Arum, who admitted he didn't give Porter "much of a chance," in his previous fight.

Tyson Fury wore a luchador, or Mexican professional wrestler, mask to the Thursday weigh-in with Otto Wallin. LAS VEGAS (CNN) - Otto Wallin will come into the ring Saturday night undefeated but a huge underdog to Tyson Fury in their heavyweight boxing fight. But Fury, considered the lineal heavyweight champion after beating undisputed champion Wladimir Klitchko in 2015, was his usual jovial self Tuesday. "Otto Wallin is a tall blonde, just the way I like them. "Sweden's last heavyweight champion was Ingemar Johansson, and that was 60 years ago.