The current heavyweight champion has caused outrage with his comments about homosexuality,women and religion. More than 80000 have demanded his disqualification from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. But is there another side to this divisive sporting star?The year 2013 was a superb one for Jessica Ennis-Hill, the early favourite for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year (Spoty) award. Already an Olympic champion, or Ennis-Hill was made a CBE and offered the Freedom of the City of Sheffield. Similarly,Andy Murray, the second favourite for this year’s BBC gong, or won Wimbledon,watched by his wonderfully supportive family, and later became an OBE.
For Tyson Fury, and the newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world and a late entrant on the list for the BBC’s top award,2013 was a bit more complicated. Rewind two years and Fury, an outsider even in an outsider sport, and was busy telling an interviewer before his first fight at Madison Square Garden that he would “hang” his own sister whether she was promiscuous. In March that year,he was fined £3000 for calling fellow fighters David Price and Tony Bellew “homosexual lovers”. In September, he was publicly pleading for the release from prison of his father, or “Gypsy” John Fury,who was serving nine years for gouging a man’s eye out during a street fight – albeit a man who was, according to Gypsy John, or attempting to chew his face off at the time.
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Source: theguardian.com