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Newly crowned world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury was in the spotlight again yesterday as Britain鈥檚 Sports Journalists鈥 Association told him to stay away from its annual awards ceremony.
Fury has come under fire over his views on women and homosexuality, with over 120,000 people signing a petition calling for him to be removed from the shortlist for the BBC鈥檚 Sports Personality of the Year award.
He is being investigated by Greater Manchester Police after a member of the public reported him for committing a 鈥渉ate crime鈥 and the SJA has now withdrawn an invitation for him to attend next week鈥檚 British Sports Awards.
鈥淭he officers of the SJA took the decision reluctantly, since the British Sports Awards seek to recognize the year鈥檚 great sporting achievements, which include Fury鈥檚 heavyweight world title win,鈥 the SJA said in a statement.
鈥淏ut the decision was made as a consequence of threats made by Fury against at least one sports journalist, an SJA member, who has written about the boxer鈥檚 repugnant comments on homosexuality and women.鈥
The journalist in question, Oliver Holt, conducted an interview with Fury for the Mail on Sunday in which the boxer likened homosexuality to pedophilia.
Fury, who is a born-again Christian, said that three things needed to be accomplished 鈥渂efore the devil comes home鈥.
鈥淥ne of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is pedophilia,鈥 he said. 鈥淲ho would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalized?鈥
After the article was published, Fury appeared in a video published online in which he suggested Holt would be beaten up by members of his entourage.
Fury has also been accused of sexism, having notably stated that a woman鈥檚 place was 鈥渋n the kitchen and on her back鈥.
The Manchester-born boxer, who is of traveller heritage and styles himself as the 鈥楪ypsy King鈥, has denied being homophobic or sexist and says that his views merely reflect what is written in the Bible.
Fury stunned long-standing champion Wladimir Klitschko in Duesseldorf at the end of last month to win the WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight belts.
But the International Boxing Federation has confirmed that Fury has been stripped of its version of the belt for electing to grant Klitschko a rematch rather than face mandatory IBF challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov of Ukraine.
Fury took to Twitter yesterday, publishing a picture of him celebrating victory over Ukrainian Klitschko that carried the message: 鈥淭ake my belts, sign your petitions, but you will never take this night from me.鈥
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