British heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has announced he is going to retire after his upcoming fight with Dillian Whyte.

 

Fury made the announcement at his press conference yesterday (March 1).

 

Speaking at the conference, Tyson Fury said “This is the final fight of my career, I’m retiring after this, $150m in the bank, healthy, young, I’m gonna buy a massive yacht abroad. I’m retiring, I’m out, this is my final fight, I’m done.”

 

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte are set to fight at Wembley Stadium on April 23rd. This will be Dillian's first attempt at claiming a world title in his career.

 

Fury was set to Fight the winner of Anthony Joshua's rematch with Oleksandr Usyk but after the announcement of his retirement this is probably not going to happen.