Tyson Fury has, not for the first time, announced his retirement from the boxing ring. But is this really the end of the road for the "Gypsy King"?

The towering 36-year-old British heavyweight called it a day on Monday, just weeks after his second straight defeat by Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia.

"Hi everybody, I'm going to make this short and sweet," he said in a post on social media, apparently filmed inside a vehicle.

"I'd like to announce my retirement from boxing, it has been a blast, I've loved every single minute of it."

Fury enjoyed two stints as the heavyweight world champion and retires with a record of 34 wins, two defeats and one draw.

That is if he stays retired.

Fury has previously announced his exit on a number of occasions, most recently in April 2022.

But they all turned out to be short-term absences from the ring and many pundits are skeptical that this really is the end.