Former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has laid down a challenge to Tyson Fury, claiming his style “would absolutely murder” that of the current WBA Super, IBF and WBO champion.
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A petition calling for Mr Fury to be removed from the 12-person shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year has now received 80,000 signatures.
Fury recently beat 18-time champion Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany to win the heavyweight belts.
Fury is contractually obliged to face Klitschko (64-4-KO53) in a rematch as it stands and has already been called out by current WBC champion Deontay Wilder, while rising star Anthony Joshua has also stated he believes he has what it takes to take his belts.
“It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt”, said IBF chairman Lindsey Tucker.
The 31-year-old Glazkov, also a Ukrainian, has won 21 of his 22 professional fights.
The IBF has now ordered Glazkov to face unbeaten American Charles Martin, thus creating a third world heavyweight champion.
“We take every allegation of hate crime extremely seriously and we will be attending the victim’s address to take a statement”, the BBC quoted a GMP spokeswoman as saying.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed that the force was investigating a report of hate crime for the comments in which Fury said legalising of abortion, paedophilia and homosexuality signified a kind of Old Testament-derived reckoning.
“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 said: “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”.
Myrie, after glancing at his wristwatch and telling viewers “it’s after the watershed”, said that Fury: “Cannot be a dickhead and win the Sports Personality of the Year”.
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.
“But if I’d said to you about the first two being made legal in the ’50s, I’d have been looked upon as a insane man”.
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Fury told Vine: “Homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia – those three things need to be accomplished before the world finishes – that’s what the Bible tells me”.
