“You can not be a d***head and win Sports Personality of the year”, said Myrie succinctly.
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Fury attempted to clarify his comments to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, insisting he did not equate homosexuality to paedophilia, but repeating the controversial views he originally made in a pre-fight interview with Mail on Sunday.
Fury, 27, dethroned reigning world champion Wladimir Klitschko on November 28, winning his WBA Super, WBO and IBF titles with a unanimous points decision and ending the Ukrainian veteran’s 11-year and 22-fight undefeated streak.
Tyson Fury is an 18 stone brawler and the son of Irish travellers who left school at the age of 11.
The International Boxing Federation stripped IBF heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) of his IBF strap earlier Tuesday for him failing to agree to defend his title against unbeaten #1 IBF Vyacheslav Glazkov (21-0-1, 13 KOs) in his next fight, according to Dan Rafael.
“You may also have seen his comments: “There are only three things, ‘ he has said, ‘that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home”. But then again, Fury has a long record of saying asinine things for attention, so it’s not much of a surprise that on Monday he continued his insult tour and derided the growing sport of mixed martial arts by pronouncing it’s for “people who can’t box”.
“One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia”, he said.
An online petition calling for him to be removed from the list, citing his views on homosexuality, has attracted more than 100,000 signatures.
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.
“I would have thought that the BBC had suffered enough embarrassment in recent years from its association with various celebrities” who have disgraced themselves, been fired, jailed or in the case of the feted Jimmy Saville, now beyond justice. I am a good role model.
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.
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As far as the SPOTY award is concerned, BBC explains that it is something given for an individual’s achievement and not something that covers his/her individual personal beliefs.
