World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is standing in the corner of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who is going through a patch of controversy in a UK.
As BoxingScene.com recently reported, a Lancashire farmer has claimed that he was offered £25,000 to submit false information to help Fury avoid a potential ban by UK-Anti Doping [UKAD] - with respect a positive drug test in early 2015.
Back in February of 2015, Fury and cousin Hughie tested positive for banned substance nandrolone. The test results were widely reported to have been the direct result of ingested uncastrated wild boar or contaminated supplements.
After a legal battle with UKAD, the two sides were able to reach a settlement as Fury agreed to accept a backdated two-year ban.
However, farmer Martin Carefoot has made a serious allegation to The Daily Mail, claiming that a member of Fury's team had asked him to provide false statements confirming he was the supplier of the wild boar meat.
Carefoot claims to have submitted two signed witness statements to Fury's attorney, who in turn presented them to UKAD.
But now Carefoot is coming out with his admission, because he claims to have never received the promised payoff.
“I have never kept wild boar. I just went along with it, and they dangled this carrot I was going to get paid,” Carefoot told The Mail.
Fury captured the WBC world title last month after stopping Deontay Wilder in seven rounds in Las Vegas.
Sulaiman is not backing away from his new world champion, and says he is firmly in Fury's corner on the controversial matter.
“Personally, I prefer to believe Tyson Fury ahead of someone who has already admitted to lying in legal documents for financial gain," Sulaiman told SunSport.
“The person who has claimed he accepted money to lie should be the one on trial, in my personal opinion, especially when he has waited five years to tell his story. Secondly, around this time Tyson was not involved with the WBC, he did not fight Klitschko for the WBC belt, it was for other titles, so this issue does not impact on him being our heavyweight world champion."