Tyson Fury could get out of retirement and start straight into the temporary fight for the title, says WBC President | Boxing news
If Tyson Fury came out of retirement, WBC opened the way to return straight to the world level competition.
Fury, a former WBC heavyweight champion, would be sanctioned to fight Agit Kabayel for the WBC Temporary Belt if he leaves a pension.
The 36-year-old teased his return to the ring on social networks, posting a video of himself walking down the tunnel at Manchester United Stadium Old Trafford with a reference to 2025 and the message ‘Did I miss you?’.
Kabayel won the belt with an impressive victory over Zhilei Zhang when he got up from the canvas to break Zhang with a body shot in six circles.
German Kabayel is an apparent candidate who will be a mandatory challenger for the complete WBC world title, one of the belts held by unique champion Oleksandr Usyk.
But that mandatory shot is unlikely to be called in the near future.
Said WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman Sky Sports: “We were very flexible and supported an undisputed concept. We fought very hard to become undisputed [at heavyweight] And we did not impose mandatory anger to allow him to fight the usyk -we made it clear that the winner would do a rematch without any mandatory. “
Continued: “The winner of Zhang-Kabayel is the highest level. But we also support [undisputed] Again because how can you see us to lose his belt? That was terrible. Now they could fight for the rude again [Daniel] Dubois. We’ll see. We won’t push anything. “
But Sulaman believes that holding his temporary heavyweight belt could lead to Kabayel in major struggles, suggest, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder or really anger, if he decides to reverse retirement.
“We will [support an undisputed heavyweight title fight] And we will evaluate what is happening, what is the best script, “Sulaiman said.
“[Kabayel] has a temporary WBC championship that [he] It can be defended. There are other big struggles like Joshua, Wilder or at the end of even anger. So many other possible great fights.
“[Joshua,] He is highly ranked at WBC, he is a legendary champion and of course we will support him.
“We absolutely support only that the best fights can happen.”
Fury lost two close decisions by USYK two difficult fights from the highest level last year. But in January, he announced a surprise of a pension from the sport.
Although Fury did not give public indications that he was planning to reverse that decision, WBC would support him, the former holder of the full World Championship of this sanction, for this temporary title fight.
Sulaiman noted: “He retired, as you can remember, and WBC supported him to fight Wilder, for the first time and gave up in the fight. It was a draw and that brought up to two big additional games with Wilder, and then to what we saw in the last three or four years [in boxing].
“I talked to him. He told me that he was retired and I congratulated him. You’re going out and you have a nice family, you’re multimillionae. But boxers have something. It’s very difficult to step down, but I’m happy to be retired.
“If he changed his mind and try, I’m sure the doctors will be good, the option is open.”
