British heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury — the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight world champion — received two pieces of bad news Tuesday.
Fury, who defeated former-champ Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision in November, was stripped of his IBF title after declining to fight mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov before scheduling a rematch with Klitschko.
Furthermore, Fury learned Tuesday Manchester Police had opened an investigation into alleged anti-gay comments he made to a reporter last month while discussing his views on the Armageddon.
Here is the comment in question, per Deadspin:
It says there will be a time when men lay with men and women lay with women and that’s accepted and it’s only in 1967 when these things were OK: abortions, being homosexual in public. So from 1967 until now. 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 is pedophilia. So who would have thought in the 50s and early 60s that those first two would be legalized. When I say pedophiles can be made legal, that sounds like crazy talk doesn’t it but back in the 50s and early 60s, for them first two to be made legal would have been looked on as a crazy man again.
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