LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 23: Tyson Fury celebrates the win while referee Mark Laison checks on Dillian White after the WBC World Heavyweight Championship fight between Tyson Fury and Dilian White at Wembley Stadium on April 23, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Warren Little/Getty Images)
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Tyson Fury suggested his retirement after retaining his WBC heavyweight title and unbeaten record with a devastating sixth-round exit from Dillian White at Wembley Stadium.
Fury, who has now won 32 games and drawn one of his 33 games, hit White with the top right in front of 94,000 fans in the capital.
The 33-year-old then said “I think that’s it” when asked in the ring if he would fight again.
anger said BT Sport: “I promised my beautiful wife Paris that after the third fight with Deontay Wilder it would be so and I mean it.
“Then I was offered to fight at Wembley and I thought I owed it to the fans, to everyone in the UK, to come here and fight.
“Now that it’s all finished, I must be a man of my word. I think this is it, may it be the last curtain for the Gypsy King and what a way out!”
Fury promoter, Frank Warren said BT Sport: “If it’s going to be the last fight, then it’s the last fight. That’s his decision, he’s the man entering the ring. If this is his last fight, he’s out so fast.”
Fury beat contender White before flattening him, with referee Mark Laison brandishing a fight with just one second remaining in the sixth round.
However, the champ showed White respect afterwards, saying that he believed the Brixton-based boxer would one day be world champion.
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He added: “Dillian White is a warrior and I think he would be world champion but tonight he met one of the great players in the sport, one of the greatest weightlifters of all time.
“There is no stigma. He is a tough guy, as strong as a bull and with the heart of a lion.
“But he wasn’t messing around with a medium heavyweight. He was messing around with the best guy on the planet.”
About the blow that knocked out White, Fury added: “Lennox Lewis would have been proud of that.”