Tommy Fury disagrees with Tyson's 'no choice' claim as he reveals why he doesn't want his children to box

Tommy Fury revealed the reason he would not want his children to get into boxing, appearing to disagree with his brother Tyson, who suggested members of the Fury family have “no choice” but to take up the sport.

Tommy returns to the boxing ring on Saturday (June 13) when he faces former World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall in a six-round exhibition bout promoted by Misfits at the AO Arena in Manchester.

The 27-year-old boasts a perfect professional record of 11 wins from as many fights, with standout victories over Jake Paul and KSI, although he has fought just once since October 2023, beating Kenan Hanjalic by unanimous decision.

Over the past few years, Fury has been open about his struggles with alcohol, claiming it was “the only thing that made me happy” when he was recovering from a long-term hand injury.

In August 2024, Tommy split with his fiancée, Molly-Mae Hague; however, the pair got back together around a year later, with the boxer now in a much better place in his personal life.

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On June 4, the couple announced they had welcomed their second child, a baby boy. The pair’s first child, Bambi, was born on January 23, 2023.

So, as a father of two, would Tommy approve if his children wanted to follow the family tradition of lacing up the boxing gloves?

Speaking to SPORTbible ahead of his bout with Hall, Tommy admitted he probably wouldn’t want his kids to follow in his footsteps because “boxing is a sh***y business”.

“It doesn’t make sense at times,” he said.

“You can look on one side of the sport and the actual boxers who are getting smashed to pieces; there’s not as much money in that as there is in influencer boxing. It really doesn’t make sense.

“Boxing is a crazy business but, at the end of the day, if they’ve made their mind up, then they’ve made their mind up. I’m not going to tell anyone what to do. I’m going to support them in whatever they want to do.”

Tommy’s stance was completely different from his brother Tyson’s, with the ‘Gypsy King’ telling SPORTbible that his children had “no choice” but to take up boxing during an interview earlier this year.

When asked whether his oldest son, Prince, would become a professional boxer, Tyson explained: “He’ll have to go into boxing professionally — there’s no other choice for him. He doesn’t know anything else; he only knows how to fight. That’s it. He’s training to be a boxer — an amateur boxer, then a professional boxer — and he’ll do the best he can.

“We have four sons, and they’ll all box — every single one of them. Why not? Boxing’s a beautiful sport, and a lot of the people who don't want their kids to go down that route are people who did boxing probably for the wrong reasons.

“Don't forget, I chose boxing as my life. I didn't do it because I had nothing else I could do in my life — I chose it because it was my passion. If you're coming from that position, then the kids are going into it thinking differently.”

When Tyson’s quotes were put to Tommy, the 27-year-old insisted that the wider Fury family would be fine with members of the family choosing alternative career paths other than boxing.

“At the end of the day, there are only three boxers in the full family,” Tommy said. “You don’t need to be a fighter to be respected in our family; that’s not how it is. In our family, you get respected for who you are as a person, how you carry your business and how you treat people. You don’t have to be a world champion to get respect. If they decided to do something different, that’s on them and they can do whatever they want.”

Tommy’s father, John, also boxed professionally until 1995, retiring with a record of eight wins, four losses and one draw from his 13 bouts.