Since then he has cleaned out two entire divisions. Firstly he became undisputed at cruiserweight, then moved up and repeated the trick at heavyweight. Across back-to-back fights with Anthony Joshua, he managed to take and then defend three of the four world titles before retaining them against Daniel Dubois via stoppage.

Tyson Fury is hanging up his gloves. The former heavyweight champion announced Monday that he is retiring from boxing at the age of 36, less than a month after “The Gypsy King” lost for a second consecutive time to Oleksandr Usyk.

Fury is one of the best fighters of his generation, reaching boxing's pinnacle as a heavyweight, but skeptics wonder whether this will stick