Fist of Fury

FORMER world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury declared himself completely happy with his four-round comeback win on Saturday night, despite a lack of action.

Fury only got going in the fourth round and his brief exhibition of power convinced Sefer Seferi’s corner to pull out the Switzerland-based Albanian before the start of the fifth round.

Fury, 29, did not take his task totally seriously early on and was told off by referee Phil Edwards for playing to the crowd, but the English boxer was pleased it was not a short fight after two years and seven months out of action.

“He didn’t come to fight, he came to run around the ring,” Fury told a press conference.

“The opponent was small and light. But he took me a few rounds, which I was happy with. I wouldn’t change a thing, and we move on to the next one. I will go back home and have pizza and then get back on it tomorrow.

“I could have knocked him out in the first round but what good would that have done me? I got four rounds in and TV exposure.

“He took a couple of hard punches and didn’t want to know. I learned two and a half years is a long time to be out. I’ll take my career very seriously this time and enjoy every moment.”

Fury’s titles are now in the hands of English rival Anthony Joshua, but promoter Frank Warren said fights against Joshua and Deontay Wilder, the World Boxing Council (WBC) champion from American, are a way off yet.

Joshua and Wilder are in talks to face each other in early 2019, while Warren plans on keeping Fury active until a world title shot happens, with his next bout scheduled to be at Belfast’s Windsor Park, Northern Ireland on August 18. – AFP