{"id":48017,"date":"2026-04-11T22:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48017"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:39:45","slug":"tyson-fury-marks-comeback-with-win-over-makhmudov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48017","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury marks comeback with win over Makhmudov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury marked his return to the ring with a comprehensive and unanimous points win over Arslanbek Makhmudov at London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>British boxer Fury won 120-108 on two of the judges\u2019 scorecards, with the other ruling he had defeated his Russian opponent 119-109 after the maximum 12 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Makhmudov made a strong start to the first round, throwing a left and connecting with an overhand right.<\/p>\n<p>But by the third round, Makhmudov was already showing signs of fatigue, with Fury switching stances and hitting a one-two off the Russian\u2019s chin.<\/p>\n<p>The fight continued in similar fashion until the final bell as Fury moved closer to a \u2018Battle of Britain\u2019 super-fight with fellow former world champion Anthony Joshua, who was watching from ringside.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"http:\/\/punchng.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a2d6cac7c7c6cbd6cdd0e2d2d7ccc1caccc58cc1cdcf\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"394d515c5c5d504d564b79494c575a51575e175a5654\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/fury-defeats-makhmudov-in-comeback-fight\/?utm_source=rss.punchng.com&#038;utm_medium=web\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury marked his return to the ring with a comprehensive and unanimous points win over Arslanbek Makhmudov at London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}