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A cheerful Tyson Fury has promised his latest comeback to the ring will begin with a destructive knockout of Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday night. “It’s going to be different because, for the first time in forever, I’m the hunter,” Fury said at the fight’s final press conference. “I’m not the hunted, and we all know that when I’ve always been the hunter in the past, I’ve always fucked people up.

“I actually feel sorry for Makhmudov because I’m going to make an example of him. He’s a big six foot seven lump, 18 or 19 stone. But I’ll knock his head right off his shoulders. I’m going to lay him unconscious like the gamecock on top of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He will be knocked spark out on the canvas looking up, thinking: ‘What just happened there?’ But it’s no shame because he’s fighting the great Tyson Fury.”

Makhmudov did not seem overly concerned. While Fury slipped through the gears of his typically bombastic delivery, Makhmudov quietly used his phone without looking up. He had stressed before Fury began talking: “I’m happy and very excited to be here. I can’t wait for Saturday night.”

The huge Russian from Dagestan added: “I don’t have pressure, because God prepared me for this moment all my life. I believe this is my time.”

Fury had retired from boxing, yet again, in January 2025. But he announced his return to the ring even before he reached the first anniversary of his latest retirement. “People always question retirement for me,” Fury said on Thursday night. “I’ve retired five times before and wholeheartedly meant it five times. I’ve successfully come back four times, and we’re going to find out on Saturday night if I’m going to be successful for the fifth time, which I believe I will be.

“Make no mistake, when I walk away every time from boxing I have zero intentions of returning. However, after a few months, I’m bored of the normal life, dropping the kids off at school, taking the dog for a walk, that sort of stuff. I missed the game. I missed the boxing and I missed the press conferences. I miss everything that comes with the big fights. I miss all that.”

Fury also reiterated that: “There was a couple of defining moments that made that decision for me to come back. One of them was my long-term rival Anthony Joshua’s [car] crash over in Nigeria. When I heard that news [that two of Joshua’s close friends had died], it was so sad. I’ve been a big advocate of saying there is no tomorrow. Tomorrow’s not promised to anybody, but when things like that happen, it certainly certifies that there is no tomorrow. So you got to live every life like it, every day like it’s your last and enjoy it.”

After promising to bring a violent end to Makhmudov’s challenge, Fury grinned broadly and he seemed delighted when his opponent lifted him up in the air during their final face-off for the cameras. Fury, as always, looked as happy amid the pantomime hilarity of selling a fight as he does in the dangerous business of boxing.