It could be the end of an extraordinary career for Tyson Fury if he retires from boxing.
His rise, fall, and rise again may have been his final chapter as he retained his world title with a victory against Dillian Whyte.
In front of a 94,000 capacity Wembley Stadium, Tyson Fury stopped his opponent in the sixth round.
I promised my wife Paris of 14 years that after the three Deontay Wilder fights that would be it, and I meant it. I meant that it was a great trilogy.
I was offered to fight at Wembley at home and I wanted to fight for the fans. I think this is the last curtain for the king. What a way to leave.
He has a record of 32 wins from 33 fights, with his most memorable being the draw against Deontay Wilder.
"I have won every belt there is to win, there's nothing more I can do, I have won every belt in the game," he said.
If it was a computer game, it would be completed.
Whether he stays out of the ring for good remains to be seen, with some predicting a return, but he will always be viewed as a popular, charismatic and controversial figure.
When he was born three months premature in 1988, doctors said he had a slim chance of survival and that he would be a world champion.
He won gold in the 2008 English National Championships as an amateur and silver in the European Junior Championships while representing Ireland, and he was a member of the Wythenshawe Boxing Club.
When he was a 14-year-old, Steve Egan said he knew the fighter would go on to become a world champion.
It was a surprise when it happened, as it was one of the great upsets in the division, as Tyson Fury defeated Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
He dressed up as Batman in the pre-fight press conference before defeating Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in the 25th fight of his professional career.
His last fight was a victory over the champ in Germany.
Within a year of his greatest triumph, he was taking drugs, drinking and going to sleep hoping he wouldn't wake up.
During his fight with depression, he said he had been to the worst place.
He confessed to using cocaine andhating boxing, rather than building on the success of beating Klitschko. He was stripped of his titles and tested positive for a banned steroid because he ate uncastrated wild boar.
The self-styled "Gypsy King" said that he contemplated taking his own life because of the racism directed at the travelling community.
He apologized for comments he had made about women and homosexuality.
His weight ballooned, but he shed 10 stones on the way to a comeback in the summer of 2018, before getting his next shot at the world title against American Deontay Wilder in December of that year.
In his first fight with theBronzeBomber, he survived two knockdowns.
The Englishman was floored in the ninth round and then dropped in the 12th and lay flat on his back for two minutes.
The fight appeared to be over when the referee ordered the pair to box on, but it was only for Fury to beat the count and walk to the ring.
The ringside media felt that the title would have been his if he had stayed on his feet in the final three minutes.
There was a clear winner after the draw, as the pair would meet again in February 2020.
In the most destructive performance of his career, the newly crowned world champion, Tyson Fury, destroyed the previously crowned world champion, Deontay Wilder, with a seventh-round knockout.
In the third and fifth rounds, he floored his opponent.
It was another classic when the pair met again in October of 2021.
After being floored twice in the first round, Tyson Fury came back to deliver a stunning knockout in the 11th round.
Anthony Joshua lost his titles to Oleksandr Usyk, but a unification bout against him was supposed to happen.
The Sports Personality of the Year award will be presented in 2020.
It followed a petition signed by more than 50,000 people to remove him as a contender in 2015, after he made controversial comments about homosexuality.
He apologized publicly for his comments after finishing fourth.
He was praised for his message on mental health at the awards ceremony.
He said that a lot of people are still living in darkness and too afraid to speak about it.
I am supposed to be a big tough guy, anyone can come out and get help if I can do it.
The United States hit seven people with financial sanctions because of their alleged involvement with organised crime.
Before the bout with Whyte, the man who had previously been advised by the Irishman said he had no involvement with the man.
Tyson Fury went out on a high as he ended his career with a victory over Dillian Whyte.
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