Controversial world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made an abrupt U-turn on his retirement decision on Monday, tweeting: \u201cI\u2019m here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I\u2019m here to stay,\u201d Fury wrote on Twitter. \u201c#TheGreatest just shows u what the Medea (sic) are like. Tut tut.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cSoon as I get better I\u2019ll be defending what\u2019s mine the heavyweight thrown (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n
The provocative 28-year-old British brawler, dogged by reports he failed a drugs test for cocaine, had earlier declared himself \u201cretired\u201d in a profanity-strewn tweet.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoxing is the saddest thing I ever took part in, all a pile of shit,\u201d he had written three hours earlier. \u201cI\u2019m the greatest and I\u2019m also retired…\u201d<\/p>\n
Reports by US broadcaster ESPN last week claimed Fury had tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n
The British fighter recently cancelled an October bout with Wladimir Klitschko to defend his WBA and WBO heavyweight belts.<\/p>\n
Contacted by AFP, Fury\u2019s promoters, Hennessy Sports, did not wish to comment.<\/p>\n
Fury had been scheduled to earn the biggest purse of his career in a rematch with Klitschko at the Manchester Arena after shocking the Ukrainian last November to become world champion.<\/p>\n
However, Fury withdrew from that date as his camp claimed he had been \u201cdeclared mentally unfit to fight\u201d.<\/p>\n
ESPN reported Fury tested positive after providing a urine sample to the Las Vegas-based Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) in Lancaster, England on September 22.<\/p>\n
Cocaine, while an illegal drug, is not banned in boxing if taken out of competition.<\/p>\n
In between his two Twitter announcements, Fury posted a link to a YouTube video in which he said George Kokkalenios, an American lawyer, was \u201ctelling the truth about the corruption in boxing\u201d.<\/p>\n
The video showed Kokkalenios at the wheel of a car, talking to an unidentified person behind the camera and suggesting Klitschko was somehow involved in the cocaine reports about Fury.<\/p>\n
Scarface<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s going on with Tyson is really a major travesty,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s getting railroaded. He\u2019s been completely railroaded by crooked people. He\u2019s not on drugs\u2014I know that for a fact. He\u2019s not taking anything, he\u2019s not doping. The system is corrupt and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n \u201cKlitschko, he is definitely involved in this because he\u2019s got everyone in his pocket. I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s a bad man at all, but I can tell you this for a fact: his wealth carries a lot of influence.\u201d<\/p>\n Fury made light of the reports in a previous Twitter post on Saturday.<\/p>\n He tweeted a picture of Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in the film Scarface, sitting at a table with a pile of cocaine in front of him.<\/p>\n Fury imposed his own face onto the picture, which he captioned \u201c#Tysonmontana\u201d.<\/p>\n Fury, the self-styled \u2018Gypsy King\u2019, also won the IBF belt in his fight against Klitschko, but had to forfeit it after failing to fulfil a mandatory bout against Vyacheslav Glazkov.<\/p>\n A previously scheduled rematch with Klitschko, set for 9July, was scrapped after Fury sustained an ankle injury.<\/p>\n Following the cancellation of that fight, it emerged that UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) had charged Fury and his cousin, Hughie, with a doping offence. They deny wrongdoing.<\/p>\n The sample, taken nine months prior to Fury\u2019s sensational victory over Klitschko, contained traces of the banned substance nandrolone.<\/p>\n Fury was provisionally suspended, but his ban has since been lifted and his legal team have threatened action against UKAD.<\/p>\n He is due to face a hearing in November and could be stripped of his titles if found guilty.<\/p>\n British promoter Eddie Hearn recently said Fury would never fight again, prompting his trainer and uncle, Peter Fury, to claim his nephew would be back in action next year.<\/p>\n Fury has courted almost constant controversy since winning the world title, angering many with a series of highly sexist, anti-Semitic and homophobic comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Controversial world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made an abrupt U-turn on his retirement decision on Monday, tweeting: “I’m here to stay.” “Hahahaha u think you will get rid of the GYPSYKING that easy!!! I’m here to stay,” Fury wrote on Twitter. “#TheGreatest just shows u what the Medea (sic) are like. Tut tut.” He added: “Soon as I get better I’ll be defending what’s mine the heavyweight thrown (sic).” The provocative 28-year-old British brawler, dogged by reports he failed a drugs test for cocaine, had earlier declared himself “retired” in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}