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Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast

Tyson Fury talks return and potential Usyk trilogy: 'He'll be begging me!' | Frank Warren on the ‘exciting’ heavyweight landscape

Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast

Sky Sports

News, Sports News, Sports

4.1918 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Andy Scott is at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium to preview Tyson Fury's return fight against Arslanbek Makhmudov.

We hear from the 'The Gypsy King' himself on his motivations for coming back, why Makhmudov and a potential trilogy fight against former undisputed king, Oleksandr Usyk.

We also hear from Fury's opponent, Arslanbek Makhmudov and promoter Frank Warren, plus expert analysis on the fight from former World champion Barry Jones and Sky Sports Boxing journalist, John Dennen.

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0:31.8

The champion's back.

0:35.5

This is how I let you get made.

0:51.3

Last off in a brave new world. Bring on the game team. Day champs like big. Hello, this is how I'll let you get made. Hello and welcome to Ringside To Toto To a boxing podcast exclusive to Sky Sports. I'm Andy Scott. I'd like to say that for this week's episode, I'm joined by skyspots.com, esteemed journalist John Denon. Hello, John, good to have you on the podcast. I mean, thanks for having me. You can't see us at the moment because you'll be listening wherever you get your podcast from, we are inside the tottenham hotspur stadium

1:11.3

when i say inside i actually mean outside so i'm pretty cold but we're in the inner bowl the inner

1:17.2

sanctum of this stadium which tyson feury and osnbik macmoodov will need to fill on saturday april

1:23.7

the 11th live on netflix there's a lot to pick apart in that opening statement.

1:28.7

Firstly, John, I think we always thought that he would be back. He is. I thought he would come

1:35.7

back against a credible opponent. He has done. And I thought he would take a run at being a three-time

1:41.6

heavyweight champion of the world, which he aims to do. So where are you on this Tyson Fury journey? Like the Mac is back. He's generating a lot of numbers and a lot of headlines. So I presume it's only a good thing from your point of view. But where are you at with this latest unretirement? Yeah, I mean, I coached with the retirement. I think I was doing a will-y-woney come back story every other week so i think

2:02.2

we knew he we thoroughly expected him to come back arguably staying out for the whole of 2025 was a

2:08.1

longer retirement than we've been we anticipated because he was out for only you know one of his

2:12.8

previous retirements only lasted six months yeah um you know, he said himself to you.

2:18.1

I'm sure you'll talk about it.

2:19.2

That he's coming back.

2:22.0

Basically, because boxing needs him.

2:23.9

And there was a big Tyson-fury-shaped hole in the boxing landscape.

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