Tyson Fury is unsurprisingly out of retirement again and back on the comeback trail.

Riyadh Season announced on December 13 that it plans to stage the long-awaited grudge match between Fury and Anthony Joshua in late 2026, with the former heavyweight champions taking interim bouts in the meantime. Any plans for Joshua’s return to the ring after his sixth-round knockout of Jake Paul, however, have currently been tabled after he was involved in a car crash in Nigeria which killed two of his close friends.

Who Fury will face remains unknown, though, Sky Sports reported that American heavyweight Brandon Moore has been offered up as an opponent. Moore has said that conversations for a potential bout against Fury are just in the preliminary stages and that there currently isn’t an offer on the table. If things were to come to fruition, though, the notion that he is a stepping stone for Fury is more than enough fuel for him to ruin those plans.

“It is disrespectful that people think that I'm just the gimme fight that he's gonna have before whatever he has coming up next,“ Moore told The Ring. “I find it very disrespectful. I'm pissed that he even thought to even think of my name, but I’m excited. This is what I pray for. We're going to get in that ring [and] I'm going to show Tyson Fury some stuff that he's never seen before. I'm going to put that pressure on him, and it's going to be a night where I'm clicking, and he's not.”

Moore (19-1, 10 KOs) previously shared the ring with Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) in sparring ahead of the former Ring and WBC heavyweight champion’s thrilling 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder in their third and final bout in 2021.

Moore, 31, of Lakeland, Florida, has won his five straight fights, with the last three coming against previously undefeated opponents. In his last fight, Moore nearly won every round on the judges' scorecards as he dropped DeAndre Savage once in a unanimous decision victory on September 19 in Detroit. The lone blemish of Moore’s career was a fifth-round knockout loss to undefeated heavyweight contender Richard Torrez Jr. (14-0, 12 KOs) in 2024.

Fury, 37, hasn’t fought since he lost by unanimous decision to two-time undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21, 2024.

For Moore, to go from someone who quit his job as an accountant to being in conversations to face Fury is a testament to how far he’s come and the sacrifices he’s made to reach this point.

“I walked into the gym at 24 years old, and I committed,” Moore said. “I literally quit my $100,000 a year job and was broke for seven years. Eight years later, I could possibly be in the ring with Tyson Fury. Come on, man. This is all just a tribute to putting my head down and putting the work in … it's about that time for me to go and bring back the heavyweight division to the United States.”