Fury’s Cryptic Post: Retirement or Cowardice?

A bitter, childish-sounding Tyson Fury posted on social media today, saying he has “nothing to prove to anybody” and “I’m staying retired.” The former WBC heavyweight champion said he’d been “rumped” and used.

The Gypsy King’s cryptic post appears to allude to his not being given the decisions in his last two fights against Oleksandr Usyk, which he felt he should have won. Tyson claims he’s happy and staying retired because he’s already achieved everything.

The Gypsy King’s Fear

The truth is, Fury seems miserable and tortured daily by his two losses to Usyk. It has to be haunting him the way Oleksandr exposed him as a phony, and he can’t stand it. He doesn’t want to return to the ring because, if he did, he would have to confront the truth about himself. He just never was an elite-level fighter.

Fury’s career was from a narrow win over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko and the badly flawed Deontay Wilder. Take those two wins away, and you have nothing. Fury beat no one. He used those wins to amass a huge fortune without having to beat any elite-level fighters in the last 10 years.

Showing a view of the water in an ideal setting, Fury said, “Why would I return for?” In other words, he’s got the soft life of one of the Nouveau riche with a net worth estimated at $160 million. It’s just a foxhole for Fury to hide in to avoid getting beaten by virtually every fighter in the top tier.

He’s using pictures of an ideal life to camouflage his fear of getting worked over by the killers in the division. What Usyk did to Fury is nothing compared to what some of the punchers would do if he chose to continue fighting.

Why Fury Stays Retired

“I hear a lot of talk of the Gypsy King returning to boxing, and I ask the question of this one. For what? What would I return for? More boxing belts? [I] won 22 of them,” Fury wrote. “I’ve been rumped. That’s it, fair play to them. They’ve had their use of me, but I’m happy. I’m happy, contented with what I’ve done, what I’ve achieved, what I’ve accomplished, been around the world and back again, and here we are.

“This is what retirement looks like for the Gypsy King. Not too shabby. I’m in no rush at all to come back boxing, and get my face punched in for what? What would I return for? I asked that question. So here we are. I’m retired and I’m staying retired. I’ve got nothing to prove to anyone, and I’ve got nothing to return for.”

Fury knows that if he continued to fight, he would be exposed even worse by Anthony Joshua, Daniel Dubois, Agit Kabayel, Joseph Parker, and pretty much all of the top 15 contenders in the division.