Fury stripped off title, rematch with Klitschko

A crown that may now rightfully belong to Fury, who handed Wladimir Klitschko his first loss in a decade a few weeks ago to capture the WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring heavyweight titles (recap here).

“It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt”, Lindsey Tucker, IBF championships chairman, told the BBC on Tuesday.

The new world heavyweight champion said: “Tyson Fury loves his fellow humans”. Instead, Fury will have a rematch against Klitschko.

Fury attempted to clarify his comments to Vine, insisting he did not equate homosexuality to paedophilia, but repeating the controversial views he originally made in a pre-fight interview with Mail on Sunday. Whoever is the best stand-up fighter in the world, I want to fight him because I believe I’m that man. I don’t care if he wants to kick, whatever he wants to do.

“We take every allegation of hate crime extremely seriously and we will be attending the victim’s address to take a statement”, a Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman told BBC.

“There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s pedophilia”.

Alice wrote in her Guardian piece: “Would someone like to explain to Fury that more than half of all lesbian, gay, bisexual young people experience homophobic bullying in Britain’s schools?”

Meanwhile, Fury, who is the subject of a petition to be taken of the shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) awards, is at the centre of a controversy over his comments about women and gay people.

“Before [Fury beat Klitschko], I would have said to you we’ll fight Tyson Fury now”.

“I just heard Tyson Fury calling me out again because I apparently “hate him and am jealous of him”, read Lewis’s post. “It is still early and I have to process things but there will definitely be a rematch”, he said.

SNP MP John Nicolson, a member of the Committee who himself wrote to Mr Hall about the issue, slammed Mr Fury for his “unacceptable” remarks and called for the BBC to drop the boxer from its shortlist.

As an obsessive for football and boxing as a kid and in my teens, athletes meant everything to me, from what they wore to what they said.

The BBC was forced to apologise after presenter Clive Myrie said Fury “cannot be a d******* and win Sports Personality of the Year” during the late-night newspaper review on the BBC News Channel on Monday.