Getty Images Fury has been out of the ring for a year and blames a similar spell away on the Irishman's recent defeat. Tyson Fury believes that Conor McGregor lost to Dustin Poirier partly because he had been out of action for too long. McGregor had fought competitively for just 40 seconds, when he knocked out Donald Cerrone. That proved insufficient when he met Poirier and McGregor suggested that inactivity had been his downfall. Fury, who last fought a year ago when he beat Deontay Wilder to claim his WBC title in Las Vegas, told Gareth A Davies that, “inactivity kills the cat.”