Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, age 36, announced his retirement in an eighteen-second video posted on social media on Monday: "Hi everybody, I'm gonna make this short and sweet. I'd like to announce my retirement from boxing. It's been a blast. I've loved every single minute of it. I'm gonna end with this: Dick Turpin wore a mask! God bless everybody, I'll see you on the other side." The cryptic reference to Turpin is unclear but Turpin apparently was a British highway robber in the 1700s who became immortalized in a famous novel that was written in the 1800s. Time will tell whether Fury, coming off two competitive losses to Oleksandr Usyk, will  remain retired or whether this is a bargaining ploy.