‘I’m only doing it for the money’ – Tyson Fury gives brutally honest assessment of boxing career ahead of Usyk rematch
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TYSON FURY claims he is more motivated by money than his boxing legacy, saying: “I wasn’t born in a Christmas cracker.”. The Gypsy King has no intention of being a cheap plaything in the heavyweight division as he prepares for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
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And he is still fuming that Anthony Joshua cost him a fortune with his September slaughter at the hands of Daniel Dubois. He said: “I’m only doing it for the money, obviously. More generational wealth. “All prize fighters, if they tell the truth, do it for the money, don’t they? Who here is not doing it for the money?.
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“I don’t want to work for f*** all. I want as much as I can get. I want the easiest fights possible for the largest amounts of money possible. I wasn’t born in a Christmas cracker.”. A Saudi Arabia-written script had AJ winning his old IBF heavyweight world title back from his former Team GB understudy Dubois, with the Gypsy King watching from ringside and ready to pounce.
No matter how Fury did in his rematch with Usyk, the biggest fight in British boxing history — and likely a double-header worth half-a-billion pounds — was in the bank. But when AJ, 35, was dropped in the very first round by Dynamite Dan — and ironed out brutally in the fifth — Fury leapt out of his VIP seat and roared: “That’s just cost me 150 million, the silly c”.
