The petition to have new world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury removed from the shortlist for BBC Sports Personality of the Year has really gained momentum, and is now approaching 100,000 signatories.
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The IBF cancelled the purse bid for Fury-Glazkov after the champion announced he would be facing Klitschko in a 2016 rematch, which was part of the contractual agreement from the last fight.
Fury beat Ukrainian Klitschko on points on 28 November to claim three versions of the heavyweight crown. The sanctioning body wanted Fury to fight its mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov of Ukraine, but he will instead have a rematch with Klitschko, also from Ukraine. However, WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder says he will be inflicting pain on the newly crowned champion.
Glazkov will be a formidable opponent for Fury, as he has won 21 of his 22 professional fights.
A crown that may now rightfully belong to Fury, who handed Wladimir Klitschko his first loss in a decade a few weeks ago to capture the WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring heavyweight titles (recap here).
But Peter Fury did admit there should be an apology from Tyson for airing his views in public, as he said: “He gives his opinions. He doesn’t hate anybody”.
Recently, there has been a petition circling to remove Fury from BBC’s Sporting Personality of the Year list.
“It’s shocking news. I don’t think the IBF know what’s happening”.
Glancing at his wristwatch, he told viewers that it’s “after the watershed” – so after 9pm – and said: ‘[You] can not be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year’.
Following his recent controversial comments about homosexuality, Greater Manchester Police are investigating allegations of a hate crime.
He was quoted: “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia”.
In conversation with British broadcaster Jeremy Vine, he sought to clarify his comments by saying: “Let’s not try and make me out to be some evil person and I hate gays because I don’t hate anybody”.
In an interview in the Mail on Sunday last month Fury criticised homosexuality and abortion comparing them to paedophilia.
“People should look up to me”, he added.
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“My employer is hurting me and other gay people by celebrating someone who considers me no better than a paedophile and who believes homosexual people are helping to bring about the end of the world”.
