WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has maintained that he plans to fight two more times - and then intends to retire from the sport of boxing.

Last month, Fury made a big statement when he dropped Deontay Wilder twice and stopped him in the seventh round to capture the WBC world title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Now Fury will take part in a trilogy bout with Wilder - which is targeted for the date of July 18.

Beyond the trilogy fight with Wilder, Fury wants to fight once more - which may or may not be a full division unification with Anthony Joshua.

“I’ve got two more fights left and then we’re going to really think about what we’re going to do from there,” Fury, 31, told British TV show This Morning.

“I’m undefeated in 31 professional fights, this is my 12th year as a professional, so yeah, that’s what I want.”

But his co-promoter, Top Rank president Todd DuBoef, has worked with numerous fighters who retired and eventually came back to fight again. Some came back within a few months, and others came back within a few years.

DuBoef could see Fury sticking to his guns and retiring from boxing - but he could easily see him coming back to the sport for more fights.

“Manny Pacquiao was retired for a while and he’s 42,” DuBoef told Reuters.

“Bernard Hopkins was never coming back. Conor McGregor retired. We’ll see how it plays out. He may get inspired and there could be a Wilder-Fury four fight. There could be an Anthony Joshua one, two and three fights. Who the hell knows, right?

“I’m not going to predict anything but I’ve been in the business a long time and I’ve seen people when they’ve thought it was time to get out, come back.”