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Fury cut an emotional figure after the fight as he celebrated his victory in tears. However, he insisted the reaction was about much more than just beating Paul, but "silencing" social media
critics too after three years of complications that have postponed the fight on multiple occasions.
"It wasn't about beating Jake Paul, it was about overcoming everything I had gone through over the past three years," he added.
"The broken rib, the denied access to the US, all the comments, all the social media all going against me.
"That is what it was all for and I showed everybody tonight that I can deal with the big dance.
"There was a lot of questions going into this, is he going to crack under pressure? I believe that is what Jake Paul was banking on.
"But did I crack under pressure? Definitely not.
"Me and Jake Paul gave a great fight and I believe we can have an even better fight second time round."
Paul: Fury was 'impressed with my skill | The rematch will be bigger
Despite the defeat, Paul believes he has shown on a world stage the "skill" he possesses, and even earned praise from Fury.
"We just said respect, that was a good war, a good fight. He was impressed by my skill," said Paul.
"He said 'look, I have been doing this since I was six years old and you have been doing it for three years and you put up a war.
"This is what I love about this sport. You can be enemies beforehand and saying all this crazy stuff then when you have beat the blood out of each other, at the end of the day, there is just respect there and that is why this sport is so cool.
"I have a lot of room to grow and improve and that is what I will be doing.
"I think after tonight you are going to see everyone on the internet saying 'the first time he fought a pro boxer and he lost, blah, blah, blah' and I get that.
"But I have definitely beat really tough opponents in a short amount of time and I am going to get back into the gym and continue to work on my craft and the sport of boxing.
"The rematch is going to be even bigger."