Tyson Fury

With the Fury–Joshua fight announced for November still stalled over the choice of venue between the United Kingdom and New York, Fury publicly claimed Joshua was withdrawing and accused him of lacking courage before proposing a trilogy against Oleksandr Usyk.

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Fury had publicly praised Daniel Kinahan and been photographed with him before the United States sanctioned Kinahan and several members of his alleged network. Following the sanctions and US reward offer, officials warned boxing figures to sever links with Kinahan. Fury declined to discuss details and said the affair had nothing to do with him.

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UK Anti-Doping initiated proceedings against Tyson Fury and Hughie Fury after elevated nandrolone metabolites were reportedly found in February 2015 samples. In 2017, the parties reached an agreement: the nandrolone-related violations were upheld, each received two years' ineligibility backdated to December 2015, and their February 2015 results were disqualified.

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Fury prompted widespread controversy following statements about women's roles and linking the legalisation of homosexuality and abortion to a religious vision of the end times. More than 100,000 people called for his removal from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist. Police recorded a hate incident but brought no charges, and the BBBoC ultimately imposed no sanction.

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In a lengthy video interview, Fury made remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, sexist and homophobic, particularly concerning Jewish people and the media. Organisations called for him to be excluded from sport.

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After a VADA test reportedly came back positive for benzoylecgonine, a cocaine metabolite, Fury publicly acknowledged heavy cocaine use during a period in which he described severe depression. The Klitschko rematch was cancelled again, Fury relinquished his WBA and WBO titles and the BBBoC temporarily suspended his licence over anti-doping and medical concerns.

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Fury was stripped of his IBF title shortly after defeating Wladimir Klitschko because the organisation considered that he was required to face mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov while Fury was contractually committed to a rematch with Klitschko.

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The British Boxing Board of Control fined Fury £3,000 for homophobic tweets. A few months later, further insulting and homophobic messages targeting David Haye, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko, among others, triggered additional disciplinary proceedings.

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