As Fury made the announcement, I was with Frank Warren and he said hadn't spoken to Tyson about it today, but that he hopes that it's true, that Fury's done enough and made enough money.
It's the only fight that AJ wants, and Fury being wise and looking at the Floyd Mayweather playbook, knows that once you retire, you have to be coaxed out of retirement.
CALL ME a miserable fat little boxing cynic, but Tyson Fury's latest retirement just doesn't wash with me.
Fury, 36, seemingly put the final nail in the coffin of the long-overdue Battle of Britain last month by announcing his fifth career retirement.
Fury and AJ have put British boxing on the map where it's not been for decades, not since Lennox Lewis 25 years ago.