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Tyson Fury returns from the latest sabbatical in a career characterised by his absence as much as his activity to face Russian Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11th. Beneath the optics of a 6-6 giant with a natural scowl, Makhumdov is a marketable choice to assess how much an ageing Fury has left to offer.
And so we begin, again. Tyson Fury returns to the Heavyweight stage. His absence, beneath a veil of retirement so flimsy it may appear in the next Victoria’s Secret catalogue, was never expected to last. The call of the spotlight, the ever present appetite for large cheques and the rumble of thunder in the distance – the foreboding storm that gathers for the real retirement that lays ahead – brings back the self-styled Gypsy King for the umpteenth time.
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It is hard to evaluate Audley Harrison either as a fighter or an individual. I don’t know the man, I shook hands with him once and I worked for his website for a while but I don’t really know him. As a fighter he has failed to live up to his claims or supposed potential. Not even the most vehement Audley supporter – and there are precious few of those remaining – could claim otherwise. Now, at the grand old age of 37, with a humiliating loss to Martin Rogan in his last appearance in front of a booing crowd, Harrison has sunk to digging up camp stories from 2006 in a bid to tempt David Haye into a marking-time fight. Aside from saying “Big Issue” on a street corner or entering the Big Brother house I don’t believe the once favourite son of British Boxing can fall further. 
