The 27-year-old Briton defeated 39-year-old Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany on Saturday to become the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion.
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An online petition was launched in the wake of the interview – and further controversial remarks made by the world heavy weight champion – calling on the BBC to remove him from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist.
There’s a huge pot of gold that Fury can get if he can get through all of those fights in one piece with his unbeaten and world titles still in his possession.
The IBF cancelled the purse bid for Fury-Glazkov after the champion announced he would be facing Klitschko in a 2016 rematch, which was part of the contractual agreement from the last fight. Fury doesn’t care that he’s losing the IBF title, because he still has three heavyweight straps that he’ll go into his rematch against Wladimir with in early 2016.
Glazkov will need to beat unbeaten Charles Martin for the canvas IBT title if he wants to win. However, WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder says he will be inflicting pain on the newly crowned champion.
However, during a recent discussion on this topic on BBC news segment The Papers, presenter Clive Myrie claimed that the “SPOTY” was not simply an award for sporting excellence, and that Fury is not fit to hold the title.
The Greater Manchester Police said they “take every allegation of hate crime extremely seriously and we will be attending the victim’s address to take a statement in due course”. “They try to say that I hate people and that my god teaches hate”. Homosexuality is legal, and so is abortion.
Fury said in an interview this week: “Homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia -them three things need to be accomplished before the world finishes”.
Regarding his views on women, Fury declared: “I’m not sexist”.
Fury has also been accused of sexism after a YouTube video emerged of the boxer saying Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill “slaps up good”, before adding: “A woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back – that’s my personal belief“. “The sports sector is working hard to be more inclusive and to welcome LGBTI people, Fury’s comments set that cause back”.
“I think MMA is for people who can’t box, basically”, Fury told The MMA Hour.
“Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalised?”
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“Let’s not make any mistakes I don’t think gay people are like paedophiles, that’s not what I said”.
