Comments Thread For: Tyson Fury Summoned By British Boxing Board of Control

[joe strong]

It seems that he was completely unprepared for the level of scrutiny that he would be placed under once he won those Championship belts.

Equating ******** and ****sexuality with peadophilia is a little misguided to say the least but he's always had a propensity to spout strongly expressed yet ill thought out opinions. He can largely get away with that within the confines of the sport and it's fanbase, after all we're not the most progressive sub set of the population and he has the grace that we're familiar with the many facets of Tyson Fury's character, that can in turn be endearing and idiotic.

For the wider British public and many sections of the press this is the first time they've given the man their attention and it just happens that it's come at a time when he's expressed outdated views about women's roles (though not outdated within his own community, who hold more traditional views on the gender) and an unfortunate prophesy concerning the end of days (come on now, what the ****!)

It's a shame that his tenure has started in this manner as it's difficult to see where he goes from here. That he's a fighting man from the most undereducated section of the British population isn't likely to be considered when stiring up a **** storm sells copy. I doubt he's got the consistency of thought and deed that it's going to take to turn this around.

Unfortunately we seldom ask ourselves why if you can make a good case that sport is inherently coarsening do we look to sportsman to be moral guardians and bastions of ethics? Fingers will be pointed at Tyson Fury and his child-like views when we'd do better to look closer to home and scrutinise our own immature and I'll thought out expectations.

That isn't going to happen though so let's crucify someone who doesn't live up to those instead. Chucking rocks keeps us suitably distracted from our own idoicy I guess.

I don't think Fury really cares about anything other then money & his family... He is getting a lot of press. It doesn't matter if it is good or bad. The more press he gets the more tickets he will sell for his future fights rather he is the favourite or the villain. He thrives off the attention...

[LoadedWraps]

Tyson Fury is the Obi Wan Kenobi of boxing. If the BBC strikes him down, he will become more powerful than we can all imagine.

'wraps