Tyson Fury said that his wife, Paris Fury, “stopped speaking to me” after his decision to end his boxing retirement for a fifth time last month.
The two-time WBC Heavyweight champion revealed that his father, John Fury, and brothers, John Jr., Shane and Hugh, along with half-brothers, Tommy and Roman, made it clear they didn’t want him to return to the sport.
“My dad stopped speaking to me for a while. My brothers stopped speaking to me, even Paris,” Fury, 37, said in an interview with the Daily Mail. “Everybody cut me off.
“Nobody wanted me to return and they made that clear… but, it’s my decision and my life.”
Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) and Arslanbek Makhmudov (21-2, 19 KOs) are set to fight on April 11 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London in a promotion by Ring Magazine that will be streamed live on Netflix.
“It’s my decision to make, it’s but probably a bit selfish,” Fury said. “It’s just I’m at my happiest when I’m in that ring entertaining people and I have no plans to stop any time soon.
“I’ll probably keep fighting until I’m 50 I’d say.”
Fury, who announced his fifth retirement in January 2025, explained that he has no agenda for being back in the ring.
“I’m back because I’ve chosen to be back,” he said. “I’ve chosen boxing because I love boxing. I ain’t boxing because I’ve spent my money and I have to risk my health to make a quid.
“I get that people want me to move on with my life but it’s just one of those things I can’t.”
Fury and Paris married in November 2006 and went on to have seven children together: Venezuela Lynda, Prince John James, Prince Tyson II, Valencia Amber, Prince Adonis Amaziah, Athena, and Rico.
Fury previously said that he cut off his wife and kids for three months to train for his December 2024 rematch against Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury also said Paris is his “biggest mentor” in his career.
“To get a woman who’s been with you all that time and gone through the bulls–t,” he told The Overlap in a 2022 interview. “The good times and the bad times … [For her] to still be there when you don’t want to be and when you’re being forced away and you’re being pushed out, that takes a very strong individual.”
“My biggest mentor in my career is probably me wife. Because without her, I would have probably went AWOL a long time ago. I’ve been AWOL anyway plenty of times but I’ve always had that loving wife relationship, sort of the backbone.”