Boxing: Fury Remains Confident Ahead Of Whyte Heavyweight Fight

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he is “supremely confident” of beating Dillian Whyte when the two boxers meet in April with Fury’s title on the line.

The undefeated Fury (31-0-1), who beat Deontay Wilder to become WBC champion, will face mandatory challenger Whyte after a deal to fight Ukraine’s WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title fell apart.

Whyte has been waiting years for a shot at the world title as the WBC’s top-ranked contender.

“I am very, very confident,” Fury told a news conference. “I am not down to earth, I am on top of it. There’s not a 1% chance that I will lose the fight, I know I cannot lose.”

“In the latter part of my career, I have to be supremely confident in my ability which I am. If I am daft enough to get hit by him then I don’t deserve to be heavyweight champion.”

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Fury, who has suggested on multiple occasions that he could walk away from the sport, addressed his potential retirement in the news conference.

“This could be the final fight of my career, I’m retiring after this,” Fury added.

“$150 million in the bank, healthy, young, I’m going to buy a massive yacht. I am going to sit back with a hot blonde and a pina colada thinking ‘you know what, I made it’.”

The heavyweight fight will take place at London’s Wembley Stadium on April 23.

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