Tyson Fury says he intends to box as an overseas boxer when he faces Dillian Whyte in April and says he will not be reapplying for his British license. 

Fury relinquished his license with the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) in 2020 and is presently licensed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. 

To box in the UK, he will have apply for a temporary license as an overseas boxer with the BBBoC, but says he does not want to be licensed in the UK again, having had a strained relationship with the Board over many years. 

“I am an American fighter now,” Fury said. “When I was boxed Deontay Wilder the last time, I was introduced as from Henderson, Nevada.” 

While Fury does own a house in Henderson, he has not visited it since returning to the UK in October last year and will be training close to home in Morecambe for his fight with Whyte. 

Fury relinquished his British license at a time when UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said they were investigating claims by a farmer that he had lied as part of his defense in a doping inquiry, after which Fury accepted a backdated two-year ban for failing a test for nandrolone in 2015.  

Previously he was twice fined for remarks about fellow heavyweight David Price and after a foul-mouthed outburst at a press conference.  

Co-promoters Frank Warren and Bob Arum say there will be no problem boxing on a BBBoC show as an overseas fighter. 

“Tyson has a Vegas license so it is no different to any foreign fighter coming over here,” Warren said. “It will be no problem” 

Arum added: “There was a poll of ‘who is the best American fighter’ and Tyson won it.” 

Fury said boxing in the UK meant that all his training camp would be in Morecambe. 

“The time difference is too much for me to go back to Las Vegas to train again, for a UK fight,” he said. 

“When I fight in the UK I train here, when I fight in America, I train there. 

“But after April I will go back to Las Vegas because that is the home of the Gypsy King, those rays of sunshine is where I belong. 

“I have bought a big, beautiful house out there and never really used it, one camp. My trainer SugarHill [Steward] is living in the house rent free right now, sending me photos of all the fun he is having. I love it over there.” 

Fury also revealed who he will be sparring with during camp. 

“I will bring in Jarod Anderson from the US, one of their best heavyweights,” Fury said. “I will use one of Frank’s young heavyweights David Adeleye and Martin Bakole. He is AJ’s mate, they have done a lot of sparring rounds together so he can go back and tell AJ just how good I am. 

“Bakole has even done interviews where he has said he has sparred us all and I am the only one he cannot land a glove on.” 

He will be living away from home during camp in another property that he owns in the seaside town. 

“I will not live at home during a camp, it’s impossible,” he said. “When I am in training camp I don’t care if I am York, Cork or Hong Kong, I am in training camp. 

“I will leave my house eight weeks out and have total tunnel vision. I have a couple of properties in Morecambe that I will be able to use for the camp. 

“The weather is a bid more mild than Vegas but I am happy up there. The weather is cold and hard but that’s how the Lancashire Valleys breed its men. 

“Any world champion that has ever come out of Lancashire has been a tough and game man. 

Michael Gomez, Anthony Farnell, Ricky Hatton, Anthony Crolla, Amir Khan. 

“I run along the promenade most days and can see the Lake District. If the weather was a bit better all the houses would be worth about £5million more, it’s beautiful. 

“It’s a Northern seaside down, no glitz, no glamour, no Chanel or Louis Vuitton shops. It’s fish-and-chip specials, usually two for a fiver, and potted shrimp. 

“I can barely spend any money. Nobody could go skint in Morecambe because you only need about £150 to live up there.” 

Ron Lewis is a senior writer for BoxingScene. He was Boxing Correspondent for The Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 - covering four Olympic Games and numerous world title fights across the globe. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.