World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury insists this week's WBC title defence against fellow Briton Dillian Whyte will be his last fight before retiring.
The charismatic pugilist will put this crown on the line in front of an expected 90,000 fans at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday (NZ time) against the man currently holding an interim claim to the throne.
Whyte, 34, has only two defeats to his resume, against former WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO champion Anthony Joshua and Russian veteran Alexander Povetkin. whom he knocked out in a rematch eight months later. Among his victims, Whyte inflicted Kiwi Joseph Parker with his second career loss in July 2018.
After signalling last month that he would retire after this bout, Fury, 33, has doubled down on the claim during open workouts.
"There's nothing for me to achieve," he told Talk Sport radio. "I've won every belt in the world that there is to win, I've broke all records.
"No-one in my era has won the Ring Magazine belt, only me. No-one in my era has ever been lineal champion, only me.
"I've won every single belt there is to win in the sport and I’m getting out healthy, in one piece and undefeated."
The only blemish on Fury's professional record was a draw with then-WBC champion Deontay Wilder, a result he erased with two subsequent victories in a trilogy series.
In January, Parker denied he would ever challenge Fury - his friend and training partner at Morcambe - for a world title and two months later, Fury dropped his bombshell on the boxing world.
Many are still skeptical - even father John Fury thinks he will fight again, possibly in a long-awaited title unification bout, although rival Joshua has since lost his belts to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk - but the 'Gypsy King' is adamant.
"That’s sailed, gone," he said. "They've had so many chances to grow a pair, step in the ring and do battle with the Gypsy King, and they didn't do it.
"I'm sorry, but this is it. Tune in now, because you're never gonna get to see big GK in action again after this... this is it."
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