Tyson Fury poses for a portrait during the Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte press conference at Wembley Stadium on March 1, 2022 in London, England. Photo: VCG

Tyson Fury says that his upcoming "Battle of Britain" with Dillian Whyte will be his last fight before he hangs up his gloves.

"This is the final fight of my career, I'm retiring after this. $150 million in the bank, healthy, young, I'm gonna buy a massive yacht abroad. I'm retiring, I'm out, this is my final fight, I'm done," Fury said as promotions began for the Wembley showdown.

"The only thing I can gain is money," Fury told BT Sport. "So after this fight I'll have earned over 100 million pounds. If I can spend that, I don't deserve any more, do I?

"I know Mike Tyson spent half a billion and Evander Holyfield 400 million and all the rest, but I don't live their big flashy lifestyles.

"I live in Morecambe, in Lancashire. It's cheap there. I don't have any big habits like I'm gambling tons of money away. I don't do anything. I can never spend the money I've got.

"I've got stuff I want to do, a lot of opportunities that don't involve me getting brain damage. I've got six kids and a wife. When is enough enough?

"Why do I have to be one of those people who went on too long and got injured? Just had one too many fights and blew it all for what? A few more quid?

"I want to retire on top, unbeaten heavyweight champion of the world. I want to do a Netflix documentary, a Hollywood movie, and be a good husband, father and son.

"Most of all I just want to be happy, and that's probably the hardest thing."

Fury's happiness was not in question when he got up in front of the media to handle promotional duties for the long awaited fight.

"Even Tyson Fury versus his own shadow sells," Fury said. "This is going to be a Ferrari racing a Vauxhall Corsa." In between soundbites he offered the attending press a chance to beat him in a sing-off or dance-off. No one took him up on the offer.

"I don't think this fight needed selling," he told the press of the grudge match. "Whyte has been very vocal in the past about how he hates me and I am a coward.

"He said I would never fight him and the rest of the division has been running scared from him for years.

"So now he has his chance to stand up and show if he is a real contender and not just a pretender.

"He's going to try and smash my face, I will try to smash his face. What's there for the fans not to like?

"This won't go past six rounds because I am going all out for the people who are turning up or watching on BT Sport."

There could be a record 100,000 in attendance at Wembley while the pay-per-view will swell that number too.

That is in part because Fury has not fought on home soil for four years - when he had bouts in both his native Manchester and Belfast.

"This is what we, the British fans, wanted," Fury's promoter Frank Warren said after all 85,000 tickets for the Whyte fight had sold out within three hours of going on sale.

"Everywhere I have been going, all I have been getting asked is 'When is Tyson fighting back in the UK?' That is the one question I get asked all the time and it has driven me crazy. But now it is here. He is back, the man is back in town."

The man was in town at Wembley while Whyte was nowhere to be seen, with ongoing issues over the terms of the contract said to be the reason for him ducking promotional obligations.

Fury took his opponent's absence as a chance to launch a few verbal volleys in his direction.

"One word: Coward! He's a b***h. He's going to get knocked out and he knows it. He should be here promoting the fight," Fury told the media.

"That's my opinion, and I think it's tough luck for him and his family and his legacy going forward. I thought he would have come here to be a part of big-time boxing. He's never been involved in a fight of this magnitude and likely won't be ever again."

That is not the same for Fury. If he chooses to fight on after the Whyte fight then he could do it all again with either Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua.

Just last month Fury was calling out the talents - or lack thereof - of his fellow British heavyweight.

"I think Joshua is a useless old dosser," he told ESPN's Max Kellerman. "As soon as he stepped up, he got chinned.

"Then he went to America where the real fighters are and got ­obliterated by a fat kid on two weeks' notice," Fury said of Joshua losing to Andy Ruiz Jr.

"So, do I think he is a great fighter? Hell no. I think he is a useless bum.

"Then he fought a boxer [Oleksandr Usyk] half his size and a foot shorter than him and got outboxed."

"I just think he is small and not fast. He is okay," Fury added of Usyk. "He looks like Muhammad Ali compared to stiff a** Joshua there."

While Fury rates Usyk more than he does Joshua, former heavyweight champion Holyfield told the British media that the Ukrainian could cause Fury problems were they to fight.

"I can see Usyk giving him problems," boxing legend Holyfield said of a potential Fury and Usyk fight.

The alternative - a fight with Joshua - would be the climax of a long-awaited war of words and public demand.

Fury might even actually go through with retiring but hanging up the gloves and keeping them off are two different things.

Holyfield knows that better than most. The 58-year-old made a comeback last September and he is far from the only big name to do so.

George Foreman, Floyd Mayweather, David Haye and Sugar Ray Leonard have done the same, as has the man Fury was named after: Mike Tyson.