Boxing champ Tyson Fury reported to police for ‘hate crime’

UK Police are investigating a hate crime allegation against British world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury.

Fury, who is Catholic, said that among the things that need to stop happening “before the devil comes home…is homosexuality being legal in countries”.

Fury was stripped of his IBF title after just 10 days because he wouldn’t agree to fight IBF mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov, according to the BBC.

Instead, Fury will have a rematch against Klitschko.

As if that wasn’t enough for the “Gypsy King”, he floored his reputation again by comparing homosexuality and abortion to paedophilia before his fight this year.

Speaking about the decision to strip Fury of his title belt, Lindsey Tucker, championships chairman at the IBF, told BBC Sport: “It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt”.

The BBC is coming under more pressure to remove Fury from its short-list for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

And how Fury has provoked a reaction out of British former boxing world champion Lennox Lewis after calling him a “jealous old man” and a “has-been” in an interview with YouTube channel MMAFightingonSBN. I had dinner with him the night before his win over Klitschko and it was all very cordial and the next day he even apologised for the things he’s said. Fury has also come under scrutiny for comments on a multitude of issues.

Klitschko had been undefeated for 11 years before his shock defeat to Fury in Dusseldorf.

He just thinks the BBC is wrong to be condoning the nomination of someone like Fury who people, especially children, are supposed to look up to.

“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”.

“I played with him the first time and I’ll annihilate him the second time”, Fury said in a report by Shaun Brown of Boxingscene.

Scott Cuthbertson, of the Equality Network, called for Fury, the heavyweight champion of the world, to be taken off the shortlist for making homophobic comments.

“Andy is in a hard position because he feels like he may be faced with choosing between his career and his personal beliefs“, he added. I can’t say I see the victor of this fight being a real champion.

The SNP’s culture spokesman at Westminster, John Nicolson MP, has written to the BBC asking that Fury be removed from the shortlist.