Tyson Fury Comments on Police Investigation over Homophobic Remarks

Boxer Tyson Fury responded on Thursday to allegations that he committed a hate crime through homophobic remarks during the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire program. 

“I’m not a homophobe, I’m not a sexist, I’m not any of those," he said, per Paul Byrne of the Mirror. "I’m not a bigot, I’m not a racist, I am a gypsy. I’ve (had people) being racist towards for the past 27 years. You don’t hear me complaining about it do you. I don’t write any newspaper articles about it."

He cited the diversity of his boxing team as evidence of his claims.

“We’ve got Jamaicans in there, we’ve got Pakistanis in there, we’ve got Indians in there; Christians, Muslims, we’re all united," he said. "What about that? Why don’t they broadcast that? Tyson Fury is uniting the world. Uniting Christians and Muslims in a time when everything is up in the air. We don’t hear about that, do we?"

The comments came before Manchester police officially cleared Fury in a hate-crime accusation, per Sky Sports News HQ. Fury made several controversial comments on the BBC program, which included him saying that a woman's "best place is on her back."

He was also summoned by the British Boxing Board of Control to explain his remarks.

Fury, 27, shocked the boxing world when he upset Wladimir Klitschko on Nov. 28. His every move and remark are under a different level of scrutiny now, however—a lesson the boxer has likely learned the hard way.