After the win Fury was installed as one of the favourites to win BBC’s annual Sports Personality award having been selected by a 12-person panel.
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The BBC is refusing to bow to public pressure and drop Tyson Fury from its list of nominations for UK Sports Personality of the Year despite the newly crowned world heavyweight boxing champ declaring “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back”.
Fury also commented on women in boxing and spoke about ring girls, rather than female boxers.
When asked about women boxers he said: “It’s up to everybody what they want to do”. “I like them actually; they give me inspiration when I’m exhausted and I see them wiggling around with their Round 2, Round 8”.
The BBC can continue to choose to ignore 45 thousand people at their own peril, but with the storm clouds already over the horizon for the BBC, with charter renewal, do they really want LGBTI people against them?
He later added of women in boxing: “I’m all for it. I’m not sexist”.
He told a number of national newspapers: “You’ve got kids to grandmas listening to you so I think there’s a time and a place to say certain things. Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe”, the 27-year-old said in a video interview that surfaced on YouTube last month.
But a BBC spokesman defended its decision to shortlist the boxer saying this was “not an endorsement of an individual’s personal beliefs”.
In the You Tube clip, which was published last Wednesday, the boxing star launched an outrageous tirade against women after being asked about their role in boxing.
If Fury-Wilder does come into play next year, the American says he’s willing to go over to the United Kingdom for the fight if it makes sense.
Wladimir Klitschko’s domination of the heavyweight division came to a close when British fighter Tyson Fury soundly defeated the Ukrainian in Germany to wrest his IBF, WBA, and WBO belts.
Fury is among the favourites to win Spoty – which this year will be presented at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Sunday 20 December – alongside Ennis-Hill, after a year in which the 29-year-old heptathlete returned from the birth of her first child to secure a gold medal at August’s world championships in Beijing.
In his candor, Fury exposes the sexist underpinnings laced within sport, the seemingly small ways in which objectification of women is validated and encouraged.
“On the third criteria of the Sports Personality award, it says it goes beyond sport”, he said.
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“People can say, ‘You are against abortions, you are against paedophilia, you are against homosexuality, ‘ but my faith and my culture is based on the Bible”.
