Tyson Fury Says Dana White Cleared His U.S. Visa Through Trump
Tyson Fury says the visa problem that kept him out of the United States for years was settled at Donald Trump’s table, with Dana White carrying the request. The former heavyweight champion is already back in South Florida, training for his December meeting with Anthony Joshua.
Speaking with Mike Coppinger of The Ring against a Netflix backdrop for the Joshua fight, Fury did not dress the story up. Coppinger noted that Fury was back in the country after “some nonsense” that had stopped him getting in, and asked whether White had helped.
“Listen, it, it, it all got done through Dana on Donald Trump’s table, and Donald Trump just went, bang, Tyson’s a great guy. Come on in,” Fury said. “And that’s how it works. That’s how G’s go, innit? They make sh*t happen.”
Before that answer, Fury slipped into a quick impression, barking “Mr. Trump. Get up!” and then correcting himself to “President Trump.” The line got a laugh from Coppinger. The point underneath it was narrower: Fury is treating the entry issue as closed, and he is placing the credit with White and Trump rather than with a routine paperwork process.
The restriction had followed him since the period after his last fight on American soil. That was the October 2021 knockout of Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas. Reporting at the time tied the block to Fury’s past association with Daniel Kinahan, the boxing adviser later arrested in Dubai, and Fury was turned away from U.S. travel more than once after that. He had not been seen in the country for more than five years.
The public return came on June 14 at UFC Freedom 250, the card staged on the White House grounds. Fury walked out of the building and into the temporary arena, cap on, and told cameras he would leave a larger announcement to White. The next morning he wrote that Turki Alalshikh remained his promoter until retirement, so the White House appearance was a re-entry, not a change of promotional house.
Coppinger also put the camp question to him directly. Fury confirmed he is training in Delray Beach with SugarHill Steward, the American coach who has been in his corner since the 2019 rebuild. That gym was off limits for as long as the visa stayed unresolved. Getting back there matters more for December 11 than the anecdote does.
Fury enters that night at 36-2-1 with 25 knockouts. He outpointed Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April and stopped Mariusz Wach in Thailand in July. Joshua is 30-4 with 27 stoppage wins, fresh from a December 2025 knockout of Jake Paul and a second-round stoppage of Kristian Prenga in July after being dropped twice in the opening round.
The bout is set for Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, and streams live on Netflix with no extra charge for subscribers. Alalshikh’s Ring operation and White’s Zuffa Boxing have both been attached to the promotion in the public announcement. Joshua’s side has argued that White cannot promote the fight under Joshua’s deal, a dispute already covered on RCMMA. Fury has said he stripped a similar clause from his own contract so White could be involved.
That is the practical edge of the visa story. White is not only the person Fury credits with getting him back into the country. He is also a figure in the build to the Joshua fight, and Fury has been open about wanting him there. A cleared entry also puts American venues back on the table for whatever follows Cardiff, which had not been realistic while the ban held.
Fury remains in Delray with Steward while the Cardiff camp continues. He and Joshua are due in the ring at Principality Stadium on Friday, December 11, with the walk to that first meeting running through a U.S. training base he could not use for most of the last five years.
