‘You should see Tyson Fury back this year’

THE cousin of former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, Hughie Fury believes the troubled fighter will be back in boxing in 2017.

โ€œHopefully you should see Tyson back this year. His headโ€™s getting better now so he should reclaim his titles, hopefully soon,โ€ Hughie told his television broadcaster, BoxNation. โ€œHe seems in a better place.โ€

In the mean time Hughie expects to win back one of the titles Tyson used to hold. The younger Fury is gunning for the new WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker. โ€œHopefully itโ€™ll happen in my hometown Manchester. I donโ€™t care where itโ€™s at, if itโ€™s in New Zealand, if itโ€™s in the desert, it doesnโ€™t bother me. Iโ€™m going to let my fists do the talking and Iโ€™m going to take his belt home with me,โ€ he said. โ€œI just want to fight good fights now and fight the best out there.โ€

Promoter Frank Warren told BoxNation, โ€œWhen Parker fought [Andy] Ruiz it was on the understanding that the winner of the fight, which was Parker, makes a mandatory defence against the next available, which was Hughie. It could have been David Haye but it was Hughie, and I did that based upon a 60-40 split on the purse bids. So weโ€™ve got a real good chance, if we wind up going right to the wire with the purse bids of winning the fight. Itโ€™s a fight I feel like Hughie can win.โ€

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