Tyson Fury Wants to Fight at Mount Everest

Appearing on his YouTube channel, FurociTV, Fury opened up about what he has planned for the rest of the year.

“I’m set to fight Anthony Joshua [in the fourth quarter of this year] and another fight in August. We haven’t got an opponent yet. Whoever the opponent is, it’s just to get sharper for the big one. It’s never about the opponent. It’s just about me versus me, always,” he said. 

Fury is basically coming off a strange late-career revival arc. After retiring following back-to-back losses to Usyk, he returned this spring and beat Arslanbek Makhmudov in a comeback fight, immediately calling out Anthony Joshua for the long-awaited all-British super fight. However, his team has also announced that he’ll probably take one more tune-up bout before the Joshua clash later this year because he doesn’t want to stay inactive too long.

‘The Gypsy King’ has always loved theatrics and mythology around his fights, so seeing Usyk get a “King of the Nile” title fight beside the pyramids probably only fuelled his desire to do something even crazier for the Joshua event or a final Usyk trilogy. And it looks like he has set his sights high, 17,598 feet high to be exact.

“I want to fight at base camp at Mount Everest,” Fury said. “I don’t really have any more big-time plans. That’s about it, really.”

“He Was Better Than You”

However, according to former boxer Tony Bellew, Fury’s antics might be because he is unable to come to terms with the fact that Usyk is a far superior fighter.

“Just say it as it is. He was better than you. Tyson Fury spent 12 months degrading him and dehumanising him and insulting him. Then, when he beat him, it was like ‘I’ve been robbed’”,  he said. “It kills him. That’s what breaks his heart the most, that he’s met someone who’s just better than him. But he’s not the only one and he’s got to accept that.”