Labour MP asks Tyson Fury to chat about ‘issues’ ahead of SPOTY

The BBC has so far stood firm over his place on the 12-person list, but came under increased scrutiny after Fury’s comments on Ennis-Hill.

How about that for a bit of heavyweight champion talking’.

The quotes in question come from an interview Fury granted The Daily Mail in early November.

“Homosexuality, abortion, and paedophilia, them three things need to be accomplished before the world finishes”, Fury said. Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalised?

“I would say, and a lot of people would agree, that I’m the biggest sports personality in this country”. Men don’t look good in dresses, women do. That’s what the Bible tells me. These forms of speech and other exaggerated forms of athletic ability and boasting are common in wrestling where entertainment is part of the sport.

Fury’s inclusion in the BBC’s Sports Personality of The Year shortlist was also criticised in the wake of his comments, with a petition launched to campaign for his removal.

Last week, the most popular petition has 40,695 supporters. Not everyone’s in her position but the ones who are are very lucky. He’s also recently given an interview comparing homosexuality and abortion to paedophilia, and that once the latter is made legal just like the other two, then the devil will return.

He added: “So there is something deeply offensive about what he said, but it’s not the offence that I care about, it’s the fact that it means that we end up not taking child abuse seriously”. “It is newspapers trying to sell papers on writing bad things about me”. I don’t hate anybody. I think he has to think before he speaks. “What people do is none of my business”.

“I didn’t say I hate homosexuals”. I’d like to pay tribute to a stunning victory, my only sorrow is that it has been somewhat overshadowed and tarnished by his comments about homosexuality and about a woman’s place in society. “I don’t care who it is”.

The writer of the article calls Fury “something of an anamoly” and points out that in Ireland “only 30 percent of the people cosider themselves religious”, according to The Guardian online. “Printed by the BBC in 2014”, the Boxer wrote on Twitter. I’ve got to fight for that British belt first though.

Joshua – who has been tipped to face Fury in 2016 as he continues to make his way through the ranks – does not think Fury should change, but has told him he needs to be careful what he says and when. What a man does in his own home and with his own people is his own problems.it’s his own life. “Not everyone is going to go to heaven and I hope I am one of the select few who are”, Fury was quoted as saying.