Undefeated heavyweight Tyson Fury has admitted he expects to retire from boxing after three more fights.
The 31-year-old is preparing to take on Braun Strowman at WWE’s Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
After swapping boxing for professional wrestling, the ‘Gypsy King’ is set to return to his usual sport on February 22 to do battle with Deontay Wilder – and it could be the start of his boxing farewell.
Before the 31-year-old Manchester fighter can get back to that, he will be in the wrestling ring on Thursday at WWE’s Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia.
Fury will be fulfilling a “lifelong dream” when he goes to war with Strowman and after he will look to remain at the top of the heavyweight division for three more fights.
He added: “The rewards for WWE are pretty good. It’s a risk-reward situation, but I am a hungry lion.
“It is one of those things where you either want to box or you don’t. I don’t think it is about hunger or whatever, it is about the drive in the individual and how much you want to do something.
“It is whether you want to elevate to the next level or if you are happy where you are. With me, I want to stay at this level (in boxing) because I can’t go any higher.
“There is nowhere I can elevate to, but I can maintain where I am and that is what I intend to do.”
