Fury yesterday refused to back down on his outspoken remarks about homosexuality and abortion, which he made in the build-up to his fight against Wladimir Klitschko last month.
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Fury was stripped of his IBF title after just 10 days because he wouldn’t agree to fight IBF mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov, according to the BBC.
Glazkov will be a formidable opponent for Fury, as he has won 21 of his 22 professional fights.
Fury stunned Wladimir Klitschko in Duesseldorf last weekend to win the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight belts.
Fury has been at the centre of controversy following his comments about women and gay people.
The 27-year-old has defended comments made about the Olympic heptathlon champion, Jessica Ennis-Hill, when he said she “looks good in a dress” and “slaps up good”, adding that “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”.
However, WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder says he will be inflicting pain on the newly crowned champion. “He doesn’t hate anybody”.
British police are also reportedly investigating complaints of a hate crime after Fury’s statements on homosexuality. The BBC has said that his inclusion is “not an endorsement of an individual’s personal beliefs”.
That’s a fight that would be tough to sell in the United Kingdom, because Glazkov isn’t seen as one of the more popular heavyweights in the division. “They try to say that I hate people and that my god teaches hate”.
In a recent interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Fury, who is a born-again Christian, said that three things needed to be accomplished “before the devil comes home”.
But Peter Fury did admit there should be an apology from Tyson for airing his views in public, as he said: “He gives his opinions”.
But the boxer has been taken to task for his controversial comments about homosexuality and abortion.
“I’m the heavyweight champion on the world in boxing and I’d like to unify and switch”.
I first got involved in sport when I was around seven, clinging on to every word England’s footballers said as if were the law, at an age I also believed my parents when they told me Father Christmas was real. She knows her place, I know her place. I had dinner with him the night before his win over Klitschko and it was all very cordial and the next day he even apologised for the things he’s said.
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Some 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the BBC to remove the fighter’s name from the Sports Personality of the Year shortlist over his “degrading” remarks.
