Tyson prompts Fury with misogynistic remarks

The new uproar is important only because Fury, the self-styled gypsy king from Britain, won several of the world’s heavyweight championships away from longtime title holder Wladimir Klitschko last weekend.

Fury was listed as one of the candidates for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award following his win in Germany.

And the Manchester fighter’s recent comments on women may mean that his chances of taking the honour fall even further.

“I think they are very nice when they’re walking around that ring holding them cards”.

Deontay Wilder says he’s ready now for Tyson Fury, and that he’s got the tools to make him pay for mistakes.

“I’m all for it, I’m not sexist, you see… who am I to say don’t you do that because you’re a girl”, Fury said.

He later added: “I’ve got more personality than all the other competitors put together in this years @BBCSPOTY who can compete with my sporting achievement!” He says, “the best place”, implying that women can be in spaces outside of the kitchen, and he won’t tell them not to, but really women are best cooking meals and pleasing men sexually.

However, a BBC spokesman defended its decision to shortlist the boxer, saying the list is “not an endorsement of an individual’s personal beliefs”.

England Boxing stressed that the sport continues to do well in crossing the gender divide, and a spokesperson told PA Sport: “Boxing is a fantastic sport for women and girls”.

And in an hour-long online video, Fury voiced his opinion on women.

Fury originally said of Ennis-Hill: “That’s the runner, isn’t it?”

The boxer has previously been criticised for homophobic comments he made in the past, when, at the beginning of November, he expressed his views on homosexuality and pedophilia [the Daily Mail as per ESPN]: “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home”, he began.

An online petition calling for him to be removed from the shortlist, citing his views on homosexuality, has attracted more than 50,000 signatures.

He says that once homosexuality, paedophilia and abortion are all made legal, the world will end.

Since publication of the interview, a YouTube video has emerged in which Fury threatens Holt with physical violence.

Fury is among the favourites to win Spoty – which this year will be presented at the SSE Arena in Belfast on Sunday 20 December – alongside Ennis-Hill, after a year in which the 29-year-old heptathlete returned from the birth of her first child to secure a gold medal at August’s world championships in Beijing.