Beaten Klitschko hints at boxing return

Britain’s Fury, 27, stunned Klitschko last Sunday (AEDT) in Duesseldorf with a unanimous points defeat, his first loss for 11 years, which ended the Ukrainian’s nine year reign as world champion.

It was confirmed at the post-fight press conference that the contract for the title fight had a rematch clause.

Fury has dismissed the prospect of facing former world champion David Haye, who is coming out of retirement, but is open to a rematch with Klitschko and fancies facing British prospect Anthony Joshua further down the line. One thing I can say about the rematch is it’s going to be explosive. Please note that comments are automatically checked for inappropriate language and will be removed accordingly. I’ve got to get that win.

“It’s interesting. Every time I’m pulling up to a petrol station or checking social media everyone says, ‘When are you going to fight Tyson Fury?’ This was way before he became champion”, Joshua said. Wilder, the WBC champ and our No. 4 Heavyweight, not only labeled it the dullest fight of all time, but promised he would’ve knocked out Klitschko had it been him in the ring.

Well, not me amid a whole bunch of boxing pundits who put our money on the wrong horse – Wladimir Klitschko. Asked why he threw so few right hands – Klitschko threw only 18 power punches in the entire fight – the beaten man replied: “My right hand was not injured”.

Fury’s promoter Mick Hennessy wants the rematch in Wembley and Klitschko’s team will now open negotiations to agree on a date and venue. “The German people really did show me some love, and I just hope I entertained”.

But, in a new twist, IBF chairman Lindsey Tucker has revealed that Fury must fight Glazkov before a proposed bout with Klitschko can go ahead – if he does not comply, the Briton will be forced to vacate the IBF belt.

When we were face to face at the weigh-in, he looked the same height as me, but when he took his shoes off to get on the scales he looked six inches shorter, and appeared much shorter on the night.