Tyson Fury has once more risked a spat with his wife Paris by revealing he intends to keep boxing until the age of 50. The Gypsy King is preparing for another comeback in April this year against Arslanbek Makhmudov at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

This is far from the first occasion Fury has opted to come out of retirement, with previous bouts and victories over Derek Chisora and Sefer Seferi taking place despite announcing he had finished with boxing. Most recently, it was back-to-back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk that prompted his retirement announcement.

Yet, 12 months after that setback, Fury confirmed his choice to return, making it abundantly clear how his family responded when he disclosed their reactions. He told the Daily Mail: “My dad stopped speaking to me for a while. My brothers stopped speaking to me, even Paris. Everybody cut me off.

“Nobody wanted me to return and they made that clear… but, it’s my decision and my life. It’s my decision to make, but it’s probably a bit selfish. 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.”

He added: “I’m back because I’ve chosen to be back. 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.”

Whilst he acknowledged the choice was entirely his own, Fury revealed that Anthony Joshua influenced his comeback. Fury’s long-standing rival was caught up in a devastating car crash in Nigeria over the festive period that tragically claimed the lives of his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele.

Fury explained: “The biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua,” he said. “I was on holiday with my family in Thailand at Christmas just to get away form the rain. I heard the bad news and thought, life is very, very short and precious and fragile.

“Anything could happen at any moment, and you shouldn’t put anything off until tomorrow or next week; you have to live for today and I made my mind up there and then to come back to boxing. No matter what life chucks at you, you must continue to move forward I got that from the Rocky movie but it’s so true, there is never a tomorrow. Today is what we have, not yesterday, we have now, tomorrow might not ever come.”