Sportsmail responded this week by publishing Holt’s audio recording of the Fury interview along with the entire transcript of their meeting. “Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe”, Sport24 reported.
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Of his fellow nominees, he said: “I’ve got more personality in my little toe than them all put together”.
It remains to be seen whether Fury’s comments will see him removed from the running for the BBC’s Sports Athlete of the Year award, a prize for which he has been nominated. “If it comes down to sporting achievements, there’s only one victor”.
Fury was recently crowned world champion after beating Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf.
Following Fury’s momentous victory in Germany the unbeaten Manchester-born fighter was named as one of 12 nominees for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. You can have people from the most hard backgrounds – and yes, travellers do get it in the neck, here and in Ireland, from the outside world – who achieve greatness by the traditional means available to the working class and the poor, viz, boxing, or you can have Polly bloody Toynbee.
Fury said: “If I’m going to get in trouble for giving a woman a compliment what has the world come to, I said u look fit in a dress?”
In a YouTube video for IFL TV, Fury said: “They can say what they like about me”.
“I believe if a man can to go work all his life a woman can”. They happen to be religious and rather moral in their sexual ethics – they’re the last group of indigenous Brits who really care about marriage, for instance – and because that Christianity and those ethics are on the whole Catholic rather than other, that loses them points with the people who award or withhold social approval as evidenced in the BBC award.
“If it comes down to personality, there is only one victor”.
But the 27-year-old hit back: “People should look up to me, young kids”.
He later added of women in boxing: “I’m all for it. I’m not sexist”.
And in a jab at F1 champ Lewis Hamilton and tennis ace Andy Murray, he said: “What personality does it take to drive a vehicle around a track 100 times?” Real men. And kids can take note from that.
Yesterday he tweeted that he hopes he does not receive the award, because he isn’t a good “roll model” for children.
“That’s just my beliefs, just like I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour”. Lots of kids look up to me. Not everyone’s in her position but the ones who are are very lucky.
However, he caused controversy before the fight by appearing to compare homosexuality with paedophilia in an interview.
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In a video which surfaced last week, Fury says that once homosexuality, paedophilia and abortion are all made legal, the world will end, and claims to have “newspaper evidence” that supporters of a fictional “Gay Rights Act 1977” were also in support of legalising paedophilia.
