TOMMY FURY has urged brother Tyson to follow through with his promise to retire after fighting Dillian Whyte.
Fury returns to the UK for a homecoming five years in the making to defend his WBC crown against mandatory challenger Whyte.
Tommy Fury urged brother Tyson to retire after fighting Dillian Whyte
He had vowed to wipe the floor at Wembley on April 23 before adding all four undisputed belts to his trophy shelve.
But Fury, 33, quickly backtracked and claimed he will retire after fighting Whyte, 33, a plan his brother backs all the way.
Tommy, 22, told EsNEWS: “Yeah definitely 100 per cent, I would like to see Tyson retire after this one.
“He’s got nothing left to prove, he’s won every single professional belt there is.
“He beat the man who beat the man and he’s beat all the top men out there.
“He’s really got nothing left to prove, so if he wants to walk away 100 per cent definitely.”
Tommy is eyeing a place on the pay-per-view undercard which would be his first fight since August.
He had been in line for a celebrity grudge match against YouTuber Jake Paul, 25, in December.
But the 2019 Love Islander was forced to pull out after suffering a broken rib and bacterial chest infection.
Tommy has called to reschedule the fight and reckons a statement win on Tyson’s undercard will do the trick.
He said: “That fight I look to see at the end of the year.
“My plan is to get a good win on this undercard. At the end of the day, Jake Paul knows where it’s at.
“We’re onto bigger and better things, I don’t know what Jake Paul’s doing, but we’ve just done 100,000 at Wembley.
“I’m looking to get a good win on the undercard and move on with my career.
“I’m a boxer, I’m not a YouTube boxer or anything like that, I’m a fully-fledged fighting man.
“Whatever Jake Paul decides to do, he decides to do, I’m not interested.”
Tommy would have been Paul’s first opponent with a professional boxing record.
The American has so far only beaten a YouTuber, NBA player and two former UFC fighters.
‘ONTO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS’
Tommy also refuted Paul’s allegation that he faked his injury to avoid risking his reputation in the all-celebrity bout.
He said: “I think it’s ludicrous, I think he’s using my injury as a play point like, ‘He didn’t want the fight’. When really, it was a genuine injury.
“I broke a rib and had a major, major chest infection and I just wan’t fit to fight, professionals cleared me as not fit to fight.
“He’s just playing on that, but at the end of the day he knows where the big fight’s at – it’s here.
“He knows where the hundreds of thousands of people are at – it’s here.
“So if he wants to go and fight another MMA kid in Ohio somewhere, let him crack on. But I know we’re onto bigger and better things.”
Jake Paul is yet to fight a recognised boxer
