Tyson Fury’s coach Andy Lee has admitted the heavyweight wasn’t interested in continuing his career in 2025.
The ‘Gypsy King’ was set for a big year in the squared circle, despite suffering back-to-back defeats against Oleksandr Usyk.
He was originally thrust into a potential two-fight deal with Anthony Joshua, with boxing fans still keen to see the British pair settle their rivalry.
But he instead decided to announce his retirement from the sport, hanging up his gloves but the boxing fraternity weren’t entirely convinced.
Fury has still yet to budge on his decision, and has yet to enter negotiations over any fight return in 2025 as a result.
And his coach Lee has opened up on the reasons for his retirement, insisting he is showing no signs of regret from their conversations so far.
He told iFL TV: “As bad as it sounds I don’t care about Fury fighting Joshua, and it depends what the figure is.
“I think he’s quite happy now, it has to motivate him to come out of retirement.
“They are both great fighters, but if they were to fight, obviously I’d be backing him and think he’d win.
“Just the odd message we have had here and there, but he sounds very happy.
“And he said ‘Andy I’m not f****d, I couldn’t be f****d with it. He seems very happy, simple as that.
“He was up in Scotland, going here there and all over the place, but he seems very happy.”
Since turning his back on the sport, Fury has been spending quality time with his family including wife Paris.
The ‘Gypsy King’ hasn’t shown any signs of reversing his decision and hasn’t ever acknowledged the call-out from Joshua.
He is still considered the second best heavyweight in the division, and at the age of 36 still holds a future in the world title mix.
It seems clear that his central reason for retirement was to spend some time living a normal life, albeit many have questioned how long this will last.
Former world champion Carl Froch is one of those, who has even suggested his real reason for retiring was due to the frustration of losing for the first and second time.
“He [Fury] has retired because deep down, he knows he is probably past his best and lost two fights [against Usyk],” he said.
MatchroomFury couldn’t beat Usyk at two times of asking[/caption]
“And I know personally he is p*****. I spoke to somebody close to his team, and he’s really frustrated and p***** off that he lost the rematch.
“But he did lose and lost fair and square. I think Usyk did enough to win.
“It was a close fight, but it wasn’t very entertaining, not like the first one where there were moments of excitement, and not a lot happened.
“He shouldn’t have any complaints apart from the frustration that he didn’t go for it.”
