Fury, 27, won the IBF, belt as well as the WBA and WBO titles when he scored a momentous win via unanimous decision against over Wladimir Klitschko in November, to end the Ukrainians 9 year title reign and 11-year unbeaten streak.
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“I’m not sexist. I believe a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”, Fury said.
Challenged about his comments, Fury then said in the interview on BBC Radio 2 this week: “Homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia – them three things need to be accomplished before the world finishes”.
“Greater Manchester Police take every allegation of hate crime extremely seriously”, the force said, “and we will be attending the victim’s address to take a statement in due course”.
The Sports Personality of the Year continues to delight and displease people harboring all sorts of moral prejudices.
“Tyson Fury’s comments are unacceptable and his nomination for Sports Personality of the Year endorses him as a role model”.
“The Sports Personality shortlist is compiled by a panel of industry experts and is based on an individual’s sporting achievement”, it said in a statement.
After the fight, Klitschko was adamant that he would have a chance to win back his titles. “I think women in boxing is very good”.
The BBC has so far refused to remove Fury from the 12-person shortlist, with the victor of the award set to be announced on December 20.
Fury was to have defended his title against IBF’s mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov but has instead opted to have a rematch with Klitschko.
But the former basketball star added: “The problem is that the BBC and the award itself purports to be so much more than that”.
“I just heard Tyson Fury calling me out again because I apparently “hate him and am jealous of him”, read Lewis’s post.
As an obsessive for football and boxing as a kid and in my teens, athletes meant everything to me, from what they wore to what they said.
“That’s my beliefs, just like I believe in Lord Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour and if anyone wants to dispute that, let them do it”, he said in a recent YouTube video.
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Fury – who saw Haye pull out of two fights against him in 2013 – has promised to never fight his fellow Brit, whom he described as a “pretender” and a “fraud”. “What a man does in his own home and with is own people is his own problems”.
