Tyson Fury was plotting his next fight just hours after beating Deontay Wilder, his wife Paris has said.
Fury spent close to two years out of the ring after winning the heavyweight title from Wilder in their second bout last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And the Brit told media after the bout that he was planning on taking a break from boxing after a difficult build-up to the trilogy which included the premature birth of his sixth child.
But Paris has revealed her husband was excited to get straight back into the ring, saying he was on the phone to his lawyers quickly after the fight.
"Tyson was thinking about it on the plane home," she said on This Morning. "He was that excited, he hadn't been in the ring for two years.
"We worked out he had been at home for two weeks out of the last six months and it was really shocking; he didn't believe it but I had added it up - we had spent time together but not at home."
And Paris went on to say that her husband still harbours ambitions of fighting Anthony Joshua, despite his rival losing his heavyweight titles to Oleksandr Usyk last month.
Joshua was comfortably beaten by Usyk in London, but has exercised a rematch clause to face the Ukrainian early next year.
And he would likely need to overcome the odds and beat Usyk to recover any chance of fighting Fury, despite both Brits wanting the fight.
"He got on the plane and said, 'I know what to do, I know the right plan,' and got on the phone to his lawyers," Paris continued.
"I was like, 'calm down' but he would really like the big fight in the UK with AJ.
"He's had his problems himself but I think that's the fight the fans want. Whether it's possible I don't know - there are other fights out there but maybe not in the same limelight as that one."
Fury is expected to instead face fellow Brit Dillian Whyte, likely at either Wembley Stadium in London or Principality Stadium in Cardiff, next year.
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He has always wanted to fight at Old Trafford in his hometown of Manchester, but that wouldn't be possible until the end of the Premier League season in May, at which point the Joshua vs Usyk winner will be planning their next steps.
Fury was given the option to attempt to organise an undisputed title fight with Usyk before the WBC orders him to fight Whyte.
But with Usyk contractually tied into a fight with Joshua, it is expected that he will have to face Whyte next year before looking to unify the division.
It does, however, remain unlikely that the end of 2022 will arrive without an undisputed heavyweight champion as the division moves on towards unification.
The belts could never be unified during Wladimir Klitschko's reign as champion, with his brother Vitaly holding the WBC title.
And after Fury beat Klitschko in 2015, he was immediately stripped of the IBF title, and never defended his belts as he battled mental health demons outside of the ring.
He came back in 2018, after Joshua had reunified the belts, and finally won the WBC belt from Deontay Wilder in 2020.
There were plans in place for a bout between Fury and Joshua in August, but the fight was cancelled when an arbitrator ordered a trilogy bout against Wilder.
