November 28 is a day that Tyson Fury will long remember, the Brit beating Wladimir Klitschko to claim the heavyweight crown before serenading his wife with an horrendous Aerosmith tribute.

Since then Fury has been in something of a free fall, his world unravelling around him as the rest of us realise just what a massive knob end he actually is. We’ll start with his take on homosexuality, outlined below here in the Independent:

“Homosexuality, abortion, and paedophilia, them three things need to be accomplished before the world finishes…that’s what the Bible taught me,” he [said].

“When I say paedophiles could be made legal, it sounds crazy,” he continued. “But if I had said to you about the first two being made legal in the 50s, I would have been looked upon as a crazy man.”

Mr Fury also drew criticism for reportedly saying a woman’s “best place is on her back” and telling Olympic medallist Jess Ennis-Hill she “looks good in a dress”.

It is believed that a report of hate crime was filed after the interview aired and the police are looking into it.

But wait, there’s more – because the International Boxing Federation has stripped him of his heavyweight championship because of his refusal to face mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov. Fury is instead keen to face Klitschko in a rematch, his camp saying that ‘Glazkov means nothing; he has zero value’.

It’s obvious that the Klitschko fight carries with it a far heftier pay day, I wonder if that had anything to do with it.

Despite what you’ve read above how about the fact that Fury has been included on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year’s shortlist? It has caused quite the uproar over on Mud Island, although it doesn’t seem to be bothering the boxer much. Here’s his response:

I’ll steer clear of mocking his religion, it tends to rub people the wrong way, but it looks like someone may have been locked in a dark room with only the Scripture for company as a child.

Perhaps we should mention that Fury’s father, “Gypsy” John Fury, served nine years behind bars for gouging a man’s eye out during a street fight. More on his childhood from the Guardian:

Born in Manchester into a family of Irish Traveller heritage, Fury was named after Mike Tyson by his father, himself a former pro heavyweight. He has described his childhood as a kind of rolling trauma. “When I was a kid, we didn’t have a family life. My mother and father were always shouting and screaming and hitting each other. My dad had different women and different kids down the road. My mum had 14 pregnancies – but only four of us survived”…

“I do sometimes think life is pointless,” Fury told the Guardian’s Donald McRae in 2011. “One minute I’m over the moon and the next minute I feel like getting in my car and running it into a wall at a hundred miles an hour. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m messed up.”

Yes Tyson, on that I think we can agree.

[sources:independent, bleacherreport, bbc, guardian]