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Tyson Fury has been a shrewd businessman since the age of 10, when he purchased his first car for just £60. The Gypsy King, who made his return to the ring with a points victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov on Saturday, is now worth a staggering £120million.

However, Fury's deal-making prowess extends well beyond his professional boxing career. The self-confessed wheeler-dealer harbours a particular passion for trading cars. Speaking in 2024, ahead of his first bout with Oleksandr Usyk, he revealed: "I love a deal, whether it's for 10p or 10 grand or 10million, whatever. I love having a deal. Before I was boxing, I was a car trader. While I've been boxing, I've been messing around with cars. It's my hobby."

At 10 years old, most children are still playing with toy cars rather than owning real ones. Yet Fury recalled: "My first car was a 1997 Fiat Fiorino. I paid £360 for it. That was my first car that I was driving about in.

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"But I actually bought my first car when I was 10 years old. It was a Renault Clio and I bought it from three doors down and I sold it for a profit. I bought it for £60 and sold it for £110 on the same day. So I've been buying and selling my whole life."

Since then, he has moved on to considerably larger sums, pocketing more than £100m across his two losses to Usyk, while reportedly banking £18.6m from the Makhmudov bout. However, he continues to value money while passing on vital life lessons to his children. He said: "In the summertime, we always wash the cars down.

"I ask the kids why we do it and my little boy will say, 'We wash these because things are hard to earn, dad, and we've got to look after our things, haven't we?' And I say, 'Yep, we have. Well done, son.'"

Fury is set for another enormous payday if he finally faces Anthony Joshua later this year. The pair have been linked to each other for a decade without stepping into the ring together, but momentum is gathering behind what promoter Eddie Hearn predicts will be the richest fight in history.

The two exchanged words at ringside on Saturday, with Joshua refusing to commit to the long-awaited bout. Fury, by contrast, insists he has already put pen to paper on the contract.

A potential stumbling block could arise if Joshua seeks a warm-up fight, given his victory over YouTube star Jake Paul in December is his only appearance in 19 months, while his most recent credible opponent was Daniel Dubois in 2024, which ended in a brutal fifth-round knockout.

The 36-year-old was also caught up in a fatal car crash in Nigeria in December that claimed the lives of two close friends. On Saturday, he said: "Once I'm 100 per cent, I'll fight."

Fury declared after outpointing Makhmudov that if the Joshua match fails to materialise, then only a trilogy fight against Usyk will stop him retiring for the sixth time. However, the appetite among the boxing public for a third instalment of their rivalry is questionable.