TYSON FURY has drafted in and old face to become one of his newest members of his corner for what he has claimed will be his final fight.
Steve Egan was the first man to teach the two-time heavyweight world champion how to box at his gym in Wythenshawe.
Fast forward almost 20 years and Egan will corner Fury, 33, for the first time as a professional, against Dillian Whyte, 34, on Saturday.
And the Gypsy King has insisted it will be the first and last time as he doubled down on retirement plans.
Fury told iFL TV: “I started boxing at 14, I’m 34 in August. I’ve had a good 20 years.
“How do you know it’s the final curtains? I’ve got the man who started me, Steve Egan.
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“He’s in my corner and he’s never been in my corner before other than one fight years and years ago and he’s back in now for the last hoorah.
“He said to me, ‘You know what? I’m the only person of all these people here who knew you before’.
“Twenty years, now that’s loyalty isn’t it?”
Fury reigns as the current WBC champion but won and vacated the WBA, IBF and WBO versions in the past.
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The British star had planned to become undisputed champ by fighting the winner of Anthony Joshua, 32, and Oleksandr Usyk, 35.
But after AJ’s defeat to Usyk in September, Fury has been put off waiting around for the victor of their rematch.
He said: “I’ve won every belt there is to win. I’ve already won all the belts, people already know that.
“AJ’s already had his chance once, really he’s had about ten chances to fight me, and for his greed and wanting all the time it’s not happened. It’s no skin off my nose.
“He ain’t a virgin any more is he? He’s been beaten so in what world could he have ever beaten me anyway?
“There is no debate, it’s not an exciting fight, it’s only for money anyway.
“If I fought Joshua now, I wouldn’t be gaining anything because people don’t think he could beat me anyway.
“They think I’ll give him a good hiding and set about him, send him up the road packing saying ‘get up there, mush’.
“All I’ll be gaining is a few quid and a word is a word not to be broken. That’s it, nothing more to gain.
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“Julius Cesar once said, ‘There’ll always be somebody else to fight’, what am I supposed to carry on for 50 more years?
“After Joshua there’ll be somebody else, after Usyk there’ll be somebody else, after that person, that person, it’ll always be somebody.”
