Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn believes a meeting between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is inevitable and he aims to have Joshua challenging for the heavyweight world title by next summer.
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Over 100,000 names have been added to a petition asking the BBC to remove Fury from its Sports Personality of the Year shortlist.
The Manchester-born boxer of travelling heritage was a late entry to the list after he upset Wladimir Klitschko in Germany last month to become heavyweight champion of the world.
The International Boxing Federation stripped Tyson Fury of his heavyweight championship on Tuesday for his refusal to face mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov, per ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael. “Our challenger was Vyacheslav Glazkov, but instead Fury’s gone and signed a rematch clause with Klitschko”.
Fury will retain the WBA and WBO versions of the heavyweight crown, while American Deontay Wilder is the current holder of the WBC belt.
Speaking on BBC Radio Two’s Jeremy Vine programme on Monday, Fury refused to back down on his claims that the world would end once homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia were legalised.
He is Christian, and fiercely committed to his wife; he has boasted of how they did not consecrate until after the ceremony and he believes the best place for a women is “in the kitchen on her back”.
Klitschko, the 31-year-old Ukrainian, who had held the title for 11 years, last week said he is exercising the option in the contract for a rematch.
Greater Manchester Police have confirmed that they were launching a hate crime investigation into Tyson Fury’s comments on homosexuality.
Fury was criticised for his views in the lead-up to his fight against Klitschko.
Going by the photo below, however, I don’t think Mr. Fury will be too bothered by the BBC revealing their underlying view of him.
“The corporation says the panel of industry experts examine each contender’s sporting achievements and that the BBC does not endorse the nominees” personal beliefs. He may have made abhorrent comments on homosexuals, immigration, abortion, and the role of women, but he sings bad renditions of power ballads after every win.
Fury compared homosexuality to paedophilia in a Mail on Sunday interview, and said that they signalled the arrival of the devil.
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“It is tempting to see him for the laughable idiot he is but sadly there are many other idiots who will be inspired and encouraged by his naive, juvenile bigotry”.
