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in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him,in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him,in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'"Fury has been accused of using the performance-enhancing substance nandrolone, and most recently, cocaine. And then, as always, there have been the tweets, ranging from profane rants to impromptu rap videos to a recent Photoshopped image of himself sitting behind a mountain of Scarface-worthy coke to, in the past 24 hours, an announcement of his retirement followed by an immediate retraction, both of which made worldwide headlines: "Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay."
But to hear the 6-foot-9, 250-pound baldheaded champ tell it, a lot of this – the rants, the remarks, the theatrics – are desperate backlashes, his way of acting out against a culture that has discriminated against him his entire life – and practically persecuted him since his title victory. "It's been a witch hunt ever since I won that world title," Fury says, "because of my background, because of who I am and what I do – there's hatred for Travelers and gypsies around the world." Fury is an Irish Traveler, the 40,000 nomadic people who live throughout Ireland and the U.K. in tight-knit caravan communities, working construction, maintaining devout religious beliefs, and fighting among themselves for sport. (Think Brad Pitt in Snatch – Fury's father, John, was a champion bare-knuckle fighter who was once jailed for gouging out a man’s eye.) Named after former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, Fury is a ferocious and spectacular boxer who has risen higher than any Traveler fighter in history, yet he claims his prestige has done little to change his treatment. "If I won over 30 fights and knocked out everybody it would be no good," he says. "I can't do nothing in my life that's any good to the general people because I'll never be accepted for who I am and what I am."
Travelers are among the most persecuted minorities in the U.K., often representing, in the public mind, a shiftless, criminally-inclined people who refuse to settle into jobs. Many RV parks in the U.K. have signs stating: "No music after 11 PM, No Travellers, All dogs must be kept on leads." In 2014, Katie Hopkins, a conservative journalist for the Daily Mail, tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel humans – we have no duty to them." In a 2015 national poll about immigration, 40 percent of Ireland said Muslims don't integrate well with society, followed by Travelers and those from "Nigeria, South Africa and Other Africa." As the most visible Traveler in the world, Fury says he feels the brunt of this hatred. On Twitter, he is mocked relentlessly, a sampling from Monday's responses to his feed ranging from "gypsie ****" to "make up your mind ya *****!" He says British media hounds him, that he has received unfair scrutiny from boxing authorities and that, just this year, he, his wife and their three children were refused service from a restaurant due to their heritage. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world and I've been told 'Sorry mate you can’t come in,' he says. "No Travelers allowed.'
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