Why do you think Tyson Fury retired?

Nobody will really know only the man himself, people can speculate as much as they like, personally i think he will be back.

 

Who knows apart from his and his family! Kind of reminds me after Liston got Patterson early and was disheartened by getting no credit.

I think he simply was fed up by media and fuelled his addiction after the fight.

It's a sad story. I genuinely thought he could be great.

 

Did he retire though? I thought he just said that for WOW's and Oh-no's and then the positive tests came around.
Still haven't heard the outcome of them hearings he and Hughie had.

On a side note, he seems to have a personality even he himself struggles to deal with so personal issues (that led to drugs and horizontal growth) would be my bet.

 

100% peds related...Guilty as fook.....Still think he is/was best heavy out there though

 

Easily the PEDs

He has failed 2 tests 1 for PEDs and refused another! He is getting a hefty ban for that

 

Fury was doing well when he was the underdog. The spotlight wasn't on him, there were no expectations, he could talk dumb trash all day and nobody made a big deal of it.

Suddenly he was HW champion of the world. Now the expectations were huge overnight. The spotlight was on him, every move and sentence was analyzed and criticized. He was the favorite; he was expected to win each fight with ease.

The problem with Fury is he doesn't have the mind of a champion; he can't handle the pressure and intense scrutiny of the fans and public. He can't fight as a favorite because he implodes mentally and is scared to underdeliver. He doesn't want to be a hero of boxing fans. Fury wants to be a trashy gypsie, stuffing his face with fast food whenever he feels like it. A true champion would rise to the occasion, stand the pressure of the public attention, be disciplined and hard-working as ever and defend his championship with pride.

 

Madballster summed it up pretty well. Some people can't take it when they're on top. The pressure of expectation, the sudden wealth and the distraction that brings.

I said before his reign would be short, just didn't expect it to be this short. I saw him to be much like Bowe, the errattic behaviour, weight issues, lack of discipline etc. It was kind of inevitable he'd implode under the lime light.

 

He's serving a ban currently for coke that the media are not allowed to mention because it's under injunction, he won't be back in 2017 100%, who knows about after.

 

Some people just lose motivation, he will never have a bigger win (please dont give me the AJ, Wilder, Haye bollocks) than going to Germany and beating the man nobody could beat, and he has stated has enough money to last him. Maybe if that runs out he will be back.

 

I liked that recent photo of him where he looks like Tony Soprano.

I had nothing but bad words for his year long BS after beating Wlad, but he looked sort of ok with himself in that pic.

As long as he either ... stays retired as a kind of enigma ... or comes back at some stage in a straight forward way ... good luck to him. I would however be annoyed plenty if he started 'doing a Haye' and talking up his profile, generating drama, playing some 'will-he-or-won't-he' negotiations game, etc., without anything much happening in the end.

 

What Fury needs to stop doing is telling people he's the 'real champion' because he wasn't beat in the ring. That is a bunch of baloney: he had two chances to get in the ring to defend his title, and he avoided both without any injury or any good excuse. If you don't defend your title you are NOT a champion.

 

I don't think he's even bothered to retire. He's too lazy to think that through. Not that he has to for our sakes.

He lost motivation. That's the main thing.
I have a feeling he's been boxing for reasons that he has no motivational reason to sustain. I believe his father and his uncle imagined Tyson Fury as a great champion more than he did himself.
I think Tyson Fury liked the showmanship and enjoyed proving his talent but I don't think he's driven to be a great champion at all. His love of the game and his ego just aren't that strong.

madballster's points are mostly true I think too, he couldn't handle the pressures. Once everyone accepted him as a good boxer, the world's #1, and a legitimate leading sportsman, and all the baggage that comes with that, he didn't really want to play any more.

Having said all this, he might well come back better than ever sometime. It seems very unlikely at this point but Tyson Fury can be very unpredictable. I never believed he'd get anywhere near as far as he did.

 

He will not stop though. Other than some money (and who knows how much if that remains) and a few cars, the opportunity to make that lame and delusional assertion is all that remains to him from his career. I have no sympathy for him. He's brought 100% of all of this entirely on himself.

 

Tbh and im a fury ultra, i think hes too lazy to train.