The Sports Journalists Association (SJA) has also withdrawn an invitation to Fury to attend next week’s British Sports Awards in London following threats made towards one of its members.
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Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are investigating a hate crime allegation after Fury made comments about homosexuality on the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
Fury was also accused of being sexist after saying athlete and fellow nominee BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award, Jessica Ennis-Hill “looked good in a dress”.
“Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe”.
It was announced on Monday that Fury had been stripped of his IBF world title after failing to fight mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov.
The new world heavyweight champion refused to revoke comments he made to a newspaper comparing homosexuality to paedophilia, prompting Rutherford to issue his own threat to the BBC.
Rutherford said on Wednesday that he had asked to have his name taken off the shortlist as he did not want to appear alongside Fury, but added he changed his mind after talks with the BBC.
Fury insensitively replied: “I’m not a grass” when asked to back Andrew Jones’ campaign for justice for the unsolved murder of his son, Andrew, 18.
“Tyson has always been outspoken and said what he wants to say … in a way he’s become a bit of monster because now he’s at the top of the pile”, she said of the boxer who upset the odds to recently defeat Wladimir Klitschko. They will discuss it and he will be called up in front of the board but what can they do to him?
He said: “As such, I wanted to speak with the BBC about sharing a stage with somebody that had views that are so strongly against my own”. Tyson Fury has been made to cancel this fight as Klitschko has activated a rematch clause that was placed in the contract for their fight, which means that Fury’s next fight has to be against the Ukrainian.
Controversial remarks that previously went under the radar are now being seized on and questioned because of the added profile from being heavyweight champion of the world.
They said they would take the complaint “extremely seriously” as they do with all hate crime reports.
“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.
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After being stripped of the IBF title, Fury remains the WBA, IBO and WBO heavyweight champion, while the WBC title is held by American Deontay Wilder. “Because I don’t hate anybody”.
