Fury Tests Positive For Cocaine

Tyson Fury was facing fresh questions about his boxing future on Friday as his promoters refused to comment on reports the world heavyweight champion has tested positive for cocaine.

A spokesman for Hennessy Sports declined to discuss the claims, which originally came from ESPN. When contacted by Press Association Sport, the spokesman said the Fury camp would not be making a statement.

The US-based sports broadcaster reported Fury tested positive after giving a urine sample on September 22.

Fury had been due to fight Wladimir Klitschko in Manchester on October 29, defending the WBA and WBO heavyweight belts he took off the Ukrainian last November.

One attempt at a rematch had already been abandoned because of an ankle injury sustained by Fury, and his management cited medical reasons behind the latest cancellation, in an announcement on September 23.

A source close to the planned fight told Press Association Sport he had been informed “traces” of cocaine were found in Fury’s system. The 28-year-old fighter’s camp would not confirm that.

ESPN reported Fury was tested by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA), which is based in Las Vegas, as part of the routine agreed by both fighters before the fight.

Fury Tests Positive For Cocaine

Tyson Fury "Will Fight Again In Early 2017"- Trainer Claims

Tyson Fury’s trainer has laughed off reports that the heavyweight world champion will never fight again.

 

Peter Fury, who is also the boxer’s uncle, spoke to the Bayloric TV Boxing channel and is quoted in the Daily Mirror saying that his man will not be back before the end of this year, since he is still dealing with the physical and mental health issues which caused him to pull out of an already-rescheduled rematch with Wladimir Klitschko next month.

But the trainer is totally confident that boxing’s most controversial champion will be back in the ring before long.

“I don’t want to see him set foot in that ring until I see 100 per cent Tyson Fury back mentally and physically – until that, the best place is at home,” said Peter Fury.

 

“It certainly won’t be this year, it will probably be early next year. He will be back.

The trainer went on to rubbish the suggestion, made last week by Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, that Fury will never box again, and that he should be stripped of his titles.

“Eddie is now a promoter, a doctor, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, all rolled into one,” he said in sarcastic tone. “

Tyson Fury "Will Fight Again In Early 2017"- Trainer Claims

Fury Will Not Fight Again

Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn believes Tyson Fury will not fight again, following the news that the Englishman has withdrawn from a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko on health grounds.

Fury caused a huge upset when he beat Klitschko in November 2015, ending the Ukrainian’s reign of almost 10 years as heavyweight champion.

A rematch was scheduled for June 2016, but Fury withdrew from this due to an injury. He has now pulled out of a second date, this time having been declared “medically unfit to fight”. It has been reported that this refers to the fighter’s mental health, which uncle and trainer Peter Fury has attributed to a “witch-hunt” against the 28-year-old.

Hearn, who looks after IBF heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua, says that he had hoped to pit his fighter against Fury, but no longer believes this meeting can happen.

“I wanted Fury to fight Klitschko, because we wanted Joshua to fight Fury. A heavyweight world title unification between two Brits is gold dust,” Hearn told the BBC. “But everyone in boxing knew that the fight between Fury and Klitschko wouldn’t happen and I don’t think Fury will fight again.”

 

Since winning the title, Fury has attracted significant negative press. He has made remarks of a sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic nature, and a campaign was started to remove him from the BBC Sports Personality of the Year nominees.

Fury Will Not Fight Again

Fury-Klitschko Rematch Off

Tyson Fury’s rematch with Wladimir Klitschko is to be called off for a second time, Press Association Sport understands.

The pair are due to meet in Manchester on October 29, with Fury defending the WBA and WBO heavyweight belts he took off Klitschko last November.

One attempt at a rematch has already been abandoned because of an ankle injury sustained by Fury and it is now understood the fight will be called off for a second time.

After Fury’s injury it then emerged that UK-Anti Doping (UKAD) had charged the champion, over a urine sample taken in February 2015, and his cousin Hughie with a doping offence.

It was alleged the sample – taken nine months before his defeat of Klitschko – contained traces of the banned substance nandrolone. Fury was provisionally suspended, but that ban has since been lifted, and his legal team said they would be suing UKAD over the allegations. His hearing will be held in November.

Fury was last week due to attend a press conference with Klitschko, but failed to show up, with his manager citing car problems.

There was no comment from either camp on Friday.

Fury-Klitschko Rematch Off

Heavyweight Champion Fury To Face Drug Charge

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been charged with a doping offence by the UK’s anti-doping body.

Ukad revealed it suspended Fury on 24 June – the day the Briton announced he was pulling out his his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko because of injury.

But Fury appealed and the suspension has now been lifted until a hearing in front of the National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) at an as yet undetermined date.

The 27-year-old says he will sue Ukad over its claims he used a banned drug.

The Sunday Mirror reported on 26 June that traces of the banned substance nandrolone were found in a urine sample taken from Fury in February 2015.

He denied the claim and his legal team says the result of tests from March and May 2015 are contradictory.

Fury’s cousin and fellow boxer Hughie has also been charged.

Fury beat Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko to win the WBA and WBO heavyweight titles in November.

Ukad does not normally reveal if athletes have been suspended until hearings have taken place and said it had made the news about Fury known after comments from the boxer and his team had led to the matter becoming public knowledge.

A spokeswoman said: “UK Anti-Doping can confirm that both boxers were charged on 24 June, 2016 with presence of a prohibited substance.

“The UK Anti-Doping Rules allow athletes to challenge the imposition of a provisional suspension and the independent National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) today lifted the athletes’ suspensions, pending full determination of the charges.

“These charges will be heard at a hearing before the NADP in due course.”

Fury announced on 24 June that he was pulling out of a planned Klitschko rematch, scheduled for 9 July, saying he had injured his ankle in training.

On Tuesday, Fury’s legal team said proceedings had been issued in the High Court.

“The two boxers strenuously deny taking any performance-enhancing drugs,” said lawyer Lewis Power.

“However, during the last five weeks leaks about these charges have appeared in the press and both boxers have been the targets of continual abusive language on Twitter.”

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Heavyweight Champion Fury To Face Drug Charge

Former EPL Striker To Challenge For Boxing Title

Former Premier League striker Leon McKenzie is to fight for a national boxing title.

McKenzie, 38, will take on Jahmaine Smyle at York Hall on 12 November for the English super-middleweight championship.

The ex-Norwich and Peterborough man became a professional boxer in 2013 having quit football two years previously.

He has a record of eight wins and one draw from his nine fights.

McKenzie is the son of former British and European champion Clinton and is trained by his uncle, former three-time world champion Duke McKenzie.

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Former EPL Striker To Challenge For Boxing Title

Muhammad Ali"s Body Flown To Louisville

The family of Muhammad Ali accompanied his body back to his hometown of Louisville on Sunday, ahead of Friday’s funeral.

The former world heavyweight boxing champion died in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday at the age of 74 following health problems complicated by a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Following Thursday’s private family funeral, Ali’s coffin will be transported through the streets of Louisville on Friday, before a private burial and public memorial service.

Flowers and boxing gloves are some of the items left in Louisville as a mark of respect for Muhammad Ali

After Ali’s body arrived in Kentucky, the Mayor of Louisville Greg Fischer tweeted: “Ali is now home.”

A private plane, carrying the casket as well as Ali’s relatives, landed in Louisville on Sunday afternoon. The casket was loaded into a hearse and taken to a local funeral home, where dozens of fans were waiting to show their respect.

A champion of champions

Why we’ll never see another Muhammad Ali

Also on Sunday, interfaith services were held at Louisville’s Islamic Center in Ali’s honour.

Muhammad Ali’s body arrives back in his hometown

Residents have left flowers, balloons and tributes at Ali’s childhood home and Fischer said: “The champ was a supernatural figure who crossed all kinds of boundaries, from athletics to arts, to humanitarian activities, from black to white, from Christians to Islam, and he belongs to the world.

“There will be people coming from all over.”

Visitors line up to visit and pay respects outside Muhammad Ali’s childhood home

More details about the ceremonies will be revealed at a press conference in Louisville on Monday.

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Muhammad Ali"s Body Flown To Louisville

Muhammad Ali Died Of Septic Shock

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali died of “septic shock due to unspecified natural causes”, his family has said.

The three-time world heavyweight champion – one of the world’s greatest sporting figures – died on Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.

The 74-year-old had been suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson’s disease.

A public funeral will be held for the boxer on Friday in his hometown of Louisville in Kentucky.

“He was a citizen of the world and would want people from all walks of life to be able to attend his funeral,” said the family spokesman, Bob Gunnell.

Former US President Bill Clinton is among those who will give a eulogy at the service, and was one of many prominent global figures who paid tribute to Ali on Saturday, saying he lived a life “full of religious and political convictions that led him to make tough choices and live with the consequences”.

The legendary Brazilian footballer, Pele, said the sporting universe had suffered a huge loss.

“Muhammad Ali shook up the world. And the world is better for it,” said US President Barack Obama.

Muhammad Ali

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, 17 January 1942

61 fights

over a professional career lasting 21 years

56 wins

including 37 knockouts

• 3 times crowned World Heavyweight Champion


• 1 Light-heavyweight Olympic gold medal


• 31 straight wins before being beaten by Joe Frazier

Ali was as much a campaigner for black equality as he was a champion in the ring, where he won 56 of his 61 fights.

Asked how he would like to be remembered, he once said: “As a man who never sold out his people. But if that’s too much, then just a good boxer.

“I won’t even mind if you don’t mention how pretty I was.”

Septic shock

• Life-threatening condition when blood pressure drops to dangerously low level after infection


• People with weakened immune system are more prone to developing septic shock


• Symptoms include slurred speech, confusion, diarrhoea, vomiting, shivering, muscle pain


• Quick response is key to successful treatment

Noted for his fast talk and bold fight predictions as much as his skills inside the ring, he retired in 1981 having won 56 of his 61 fights – 37 by knockout – and was later crowned “Sports Personality of the Century” by the BBC.

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Muhammad Ali Died Of Septic Shock

Tyson Ridicules The Decision of Professional Boxers Fighting at The Olympics

Mike Tyson has branded the Amateur International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) decision to let professional fighters take part in the 2016 Rio Olympics as “ridiculous” and “foolish”.

Professional boxers would feature at the Olympic games as long as a constitutional change went through in June, AIBA said earlier this year.

Former world heavyweight champion Tyson, who as an amateur won gold at the 1981 and 1982 Junior Olympic Games, said on Wednesday that professional boxers would be stunned by the fast-paced fighting style of the amateur fighters.

“It’s ridiculous, it’s foolish, and some of the pro fighters are going to get beat by the amateurs. It’s just going to happen, I really believe that,” the 49-year-old said in China, where he is attending the 33rd IBF convention.

“If they are like the amateur fighters that I was fighting in the 80s… they are going to beat some of the champions. It’s just going to happen. These guys will be fast for three or four rounds, and these guys are not going to be accustomed to that”.

 

On the other hand Carl Frampton, who has relinquished his IBF super-bantamweight title, says the change is “ridiculous” and amateur and pro boxing are “two different sports”.

Tyson Ridicules The Decision of Professional Boxers Fighting at The Olympics

Video: I Want To Fight McGregor - Floyd Mayweather

The retired former boxing champ Floyd Mayweather says the UFC title-holder Conor McGregor is the only man who can lure him back into the ring.

https://youtu.be/Eldg6AMskJ4

 

Many boxing observers and fans were dubious of Floyd Mayweather’s announced plan to retire for good after tying Rocky Marciano’s career record of 49-0.

The former pound-for-pound champion insists that he is staying retired, however.

That is, unless he can make the fight with UFC featherweight champion McGregor happen.

Video: I Want To Fight McGregor - Floyd Mayweather

Fury Hits Out At Klitschko

WBA Super and WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury claims Wladimir Klitschko has bored the German public for the past 15 years, in a second entertaining pre-fight press conference in Cologne.

Fury had provoked the 40-year-old former heavyweight champion in Wednesday’s press conference in Manchester, saying that he was beaten by a “fat man”, when the two fighters met in Dusseldorf back in November.

And the 27-year-old, who arrived at the fight’s first press conference with a group of cheerleaders following him into the room, has now hit out at Klitschko’s character.

As reported by Sky Sports, Fury said: “Look at the guy. He’s more to be admired than respected because he’s still here fighting at 40-years-old, boring everybody to death.

“I hate Wladimir Klitschko for what he’s done to you German people; bored you for 15 years. Come on, you know you want to clap and agree with the champ!”

 

Klitschko is eager to reinstate himself on Saturday, July 9 2016 as the WBA Super and WBO heavyweight champion of the world, having suffered a shock defeat to the Gypsy King at the back end of last year, after going 11 years undefeated in the ring.

Fury Hits Out At Klitschko