{"id":57489,"date":"2019-11-06T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=57489"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:00:46","slug":"tyson-fury-returning-to-smackdown-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/11\/06\/tyson-fury-returning-to-smackdown-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury Returning to SmackDown This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <strong>WWE<\/strong>&#8216;s recent (ever controversial) Saudi Arabia event in which a number of the roster were stranded in Riyadh, boxing&#8217;s lineal Heavyweight Champion, <strong>Tyson Fury<\/strong>, was expected to exit the WWE universe and return to the world of boxing.\u00a0 However, Tyson Fury and WWE have now confirmed that the 6&#8217;9 &#8220;Gypsy King&#8221; will be at Friday&#8217;s Manchester in <em><strong>SmackDown<\/strong><\/em> in the flesh.\u00a0 For those who don&#8217;t know, Fury is a Manchester native, so this was perhaps more predictable than it appears.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tyson Fury makes grand entrance on the big stage: WWE Crown Jewel 2019 (WWE Network Exclusive)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h7wIMVoJf-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/10\/11\/tyson-fury-the-latest-boxer-to-enter-wrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not the first professional boxer to make the jump to pro-wrestling<\/a>, Fury&#8217;s character might be the most colorful.\u00a0 Appearing as a guest on this week&#8217;s WWE After the Bell podcast hosted by<strong> Corey Graves<\/strong>, Fury confirmed the news.\u00a0 Interestingly, he set his sights on current WWE Universal Champion and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully you see me in the ring again and I want to fight Brock Lesnar next. One clip from the Gypsy King and Lesnar will wake up in Tokyo,\u201d Fury stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows? It might happen at <em><strong>WrestleMania<\/strong><\/em> in Florida,\u201d Fury continued. \u201cBig shout-outs to <strong>Vince McMahon<\/strong> and everyone who works at WWE.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>More than just a boxer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Fury&#8217;s fame has grown recently after his inspirational comeback from depression.\u00a0 Fury vacated his heavweight titles in October 2016, after winning them in November 2015.\u00a0 He defeated Wladimir Klitschko; a fighter deemed by many as being the most dominant of his generation and one of the all-time greats.\u00a0 However, increased media attention and depression caught up with Fury.\u00a0 This led him to drugs, further leading him to fail a drug test for cocaine.\u00a0 Fury&#8217;s weight also spiraled out of control, leading him to weighing over 100lbs more than the weight he was at when he fought Klitschko.<\/p>\n<p>Fury made his big boxing comeback in 2018, which most notably featured an incredible performance against current WBC Heavyweight Champion, Deontay Wilder.\u00a0 The fight ended in a draw, but the performance of Fury &#8211; which included a spectacular, now famous recovery in the 9th round &#8211; led many to believe he truly won the fight.\u00a0 There has been much talk of a rematch and Fury&#8217;s presence in the WWE has led to many accusing him of dodging a rematch.<\/p>\n<p>However, for now, Fury&#8217;s sights appear to be on Lesnar.\u00a0 A former UFC Heavyweight Champion squaring off with the lineal heavyweight boxing champion of the world would surely have Vince McMahon drooling.\u00a0 Will the match actually happen? Who knows.\u00a0 One thing is for sure, it would be a spectacle well-suited to the glitz and glamour of <em>WrestleMania<\/em>.\u00a0 Will the seeds for this fight be planted on Friday? We&#8217;ll just have to stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world.\u00a0 \u00a0We provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 A WWE fan? Make sure to subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>, to catch all the quality WWE action past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the WWE&#8216;s recent (ever controversial) Saudi Arabia event in which a number of the roster were stranded in Riyadh, boxing&#8217;s lineal Heavyweight Champion, Tyson Fury, was expected to exit the WWE universe and return to the world of boxing.\u00a0 However, Tyson Fury and WWE have now confirmed that the 6&#8217;9 &#8220;Gypsy King&#8221; will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":57491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,3],"tags":[255,57,2853,5740,241,47],"class_list":["post-57489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-braun-strowman","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-corey-graves","tag-tyson-fury","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}