Rahman, 53 And Making A Comeback, Says Fury Is 'Done'

Hasim Rahman is making a comeback at 53 — and he has decided Tyson Fury is more finished than he is.

The former heavyweight champion, who stunned the boxing world by stopping Lennox Lewis in four rounds to claim the WBC and IBF titles in 2001, is scheduled to return to the ring on July 14 at New York's ESL Ballpark in a six-round bout. An opponent has not yet been announced.

His last professional fight ended in a loss to little-known Anthony Nansen in 2014. None of that has tempered his ambitions — Rahman has spoken publicly about surpassing George Foreman to become the oldest heavyweight champion in history — or his willingness to deliver verdicts on the current state of the division.

His assessment of Fury is not kind.

"I just think Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury beat their careers out of each other — they left their careers in that trilogy. It's over for both of them," Rahman said in an interview with B4 Champ. "You're never going to see that prime Tyson Fury again. It's over. Done."

The specific fight Rahman points to is their third meeting in October 2021, which Fury won by eleventh-round knockout but only after being knocked down twice and surviving several passages where the outcome felt genuinely uncertain. Rahman's argument is that the physical cost of that night — and the trilogy as a whole — was too significant to absorb without lasting consequences, regardless of who had his hand raised at the end.

Fury's most recent outing against Arslanbek Makhmudov in April, which he won by unanimous decision, is the evidence Rahman leans on to support the claim. The performance was functional rather than dominant, and for a fighter of Fury's established peak it left enough questions unanswered to give critics a foothold. Whether Rahman's reading is accurate or premature depends largely on what Fury produces next.