BBC refuses to remove Tyson Fury from Sports Personality shortlist

Later on Tuesday, Fury lost his IBF title having signed up to fight Klitschko again rather than the sanctioning body’s mandatory challenger.

Following his recent controversial comments about homosexuality, Greater Manchester Police are investigating allegations of a hate crime.

Lindsey Tucker, championships chairman at the IBF, told the BBC: “It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt”. Instead, Fury will have a rematch against Klitschko.

The 31-year-old Glazkov, also a Ukrainian, has won 21 of his 22 professional fights.

Before the Klitschko fight, Fury also criticized abortion and said doping should be legalized in all sports to make it “fully fair”.

If Tyson Fury’s surprising upset of Wladimir Klitschko didn’t change everything, it certainly changed his life.

Fury will retain the WBA and WBO versions of the heavyweight crown, while American Deontay Wilder is the current holder of the WBC belt.

“As Fury became heavyweight champion of the world over the weekend, the panel feel that he should be a contender for this year’s award”.

Of fellow SPOTY contender Jessica Ennis-Hill, Britain’s Olympic heptathlon champion, he said: “She slaps up well”.

“The Gypsy King, & the heavyweight champion of the world, will not be silenced I’ll always speak my mind, Like it or lump it, in Jesus name”.

Fury didn’t appear on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, but his uncle and trainer, Peter Fury, gave an interview in which he suggested that the boxer needed to apologise for linking homosexuality to paedophilia.

“I am ashamed to work for the BBC when it lacks the bravery to admit it is making a mistake”.

There is no doubt Fury deserves to be recognised for his achievement in defeating Wladimir Klitschko on November 28, although those opposing the nomination want Fury ousted due to his personal beliefs.

Comments made by Tyson Fury have caused much controversy.

“Maybe, going back to scripture, we could think about the idea of discipleship and mentorship, whether that’s something he’s open to our not, I don’t know”. Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalized?

In the aftermath of his win in Dusseldorf, Fury had said: “I’m not sexist”.

It cited an interview with the Mail on Sunday newspaper in which Fury, a born-again Christian, said three things needed to happen “before the devil comes home”.

However he did add: “no hatred from me, towards anyone of anything” saying he loved all his human beings.