Police investigating Fury comments now

[Nightmare Roy]

Just saw on the news that the police are now investigating him now, saying he may have committed some kind of hate crime. All getting a bit silly if you ask me.

[Nightmare Roy]

To make his day worse, the IBF have stripped him too.

[tiny_acres]

Totally freaking stupid.

[Fatcatstu]

Good.

He needs to learn you can't walk around saying such absolute hate filled, hurtful rubbish in public and expect to get away with it.

Learn some humility, no one needs to know he is a bigoted homophobe.

[Horse]

Good.

He needs to learn you can't walk around saying such absolute hate filled, hurtful rubbish in public and expect to get away with it.

Learn some humility, no one needs to know he is a bigoted homophobe.

Screw freedom.

Lock up all of the meanies.

[Batley18]

Good.

He needs to learn you can't walk around saying such absolute hate filled, hurtful rubbish in public and expect to get away with it.

Learn some humility, no one needs to know he is a bigoted homophobe.

Although I agree that he should be a bit more sensible about his comments, he has been saying these things for years and no one batted an eye lid. Suddenly the guy is HW champion of the world and the police investigate it. It is nonsense. He has a right to his beliefs, as stupid as some of them may be. He isn't breaking any laws.

[Stevieb8006]

A waste of time and money if they are. Some people need to get busier lives.

Without sounding all David icke about things, there seems a bigger outcry about a boxers opinions that our country going to fornicating war in the press.

Seems like a case of distracting the masses with trivial nonsense so they don't focus on the snide shit the powers that be get up too.

[DavidPayne]

A waste of time and money if they are. Some people need to get busier lives.

Without sounding all David icke about things, there seems a bigger outcry about a boxers opinions that our country going to effing war in the press.

Seems like a case of distracting the masses with trivial nonsense so they don't focus on the snide poo the powers that be get up too.

This is exactly what is happening.

David Cameron just misled the house and walked them into killing children in Syria with talk of 70,000 Tory voting, Churchill loving SAS men in Syria and the BBC lead with Fury stripped of IBF belt.

I'm hoping for some balanced editorial from Ben Dirs at some point to counter the guff and bias applied to the reporting of that story.

[mfc_se15]

A waste of time and money if they are. Some people need to get busier lives.

Spot on. I can't stand the modern idea of being offended by absolutely everything. The stuff about Jessica Enis etc was said in that hour long Ifilm video wasn't it? How many people had actually sat through that/knew about it prior to something appearing in the papers/BBC then everyone is offended about it.

I don't agree with most of what Fury says but if he says something that annoys me I just wouldn't listen to that interview/his interviews again. Don't get me wrong if his comments were incitement then it might be different but as far as I've read/heard they weren't.

[Stevieb8006]

BJS has said some shocking stuff but seems to get away with it.

[Gnome]

How ridiculous. Like the police don't have enough to do. Absolutely stupid. Lawyers and (non-boxing) journalists will be the only winners here.

[Nightmare Roy]

BJS has said some shocking stuff but seems to get away with it.

He won't if he becomes high profile, hardly anyone knew who Fury was until a week ago.

[Terry Dooley]

The complaint was made by a former police officer who came out of the closet a while ago. We do live in an age of ‘apology porn’, people cream themselves over getting people to do a public apology then bang on about until the next one comes along. Free speech is usually condoned only if people agree with what is being said, anything else is seized upon.

[Nightmare Roy]

They were just talking about it on the Wright Stuff, I thought they would jump on the bashing bandwagon but they didn't to be fair, just said he needs some good management/PR peoe around him, can't argue with that to be honest.

[jamesmcdonnell]

A waste of time and money if they are. Some people need to get busier lives.

Spot on. I can't stand the modern idea of being offended by absolutely everything. The stuff about Jessica Enis etc was said in that hour long Ifilm video wasn't it? How many people had actually sat through that/knew about it prior to something appearing in the papers/BBC then everyone is offended about it.

I don't agree with most of what Fury says but if he says something that annoys me I just wouldn't listen to that interview/his interviews again. Don't get me wrong if his comments were incitement then it might be different but as far as I've read/heard they weren't.

No, me either, but I'd imagine that if I were gay, or a woman, I might feel slightly differently.

He's now the heavyweight champion of the world, if he goes around making stupid comments, he's going to draw fire. He needs a P.R team to shut him up, or he will just have to accept the criticism, and possible lawsuits he might incur if he wants to continue down the path he's on.

I know people think it's hyper sensitive, but imagine he was saying 'Well, I don't agree with mixed marriages - people should stick to their own' - I know you might say this is quite an extrapolation, but it isn't really.

I'm not some hypersensitive type, but I do think his comments are offensive, and very ignorant. Sure, it's not a popularity contest, and he is entitled to his beliefs, but if he's a high profile public figure, with a public platform, then nobody can really complain when his comments cause consternation. With the plaudits, come the brickbats.

[Stuarty]

Good.

He needs to learn you can't walk around saying such absolute hate filled, hurtful rubbish in public and expect to get away with it.

Learn some humility, no one needs to know he is a bigoted homophobe.

Meeeaow! Surely the police have better things to do! People are far too sensitive these days! Away tea bagging and calm yerself down

[danamba7]

To try and relate to this better, if these comments were racist instead of sexist/homophobic, I would no longer support Fury, watch his interviews or buy any future PPVs. However I wouldn't even think about starting a petition or reporting him to the police.

[DavidPayne]

A waste of time and money if they are. Some people need to get busier lives.

Spot on. I can't stand the modern idea of being offended by absolutely everything. The stuff about Jessica Enis etc was said in that hour long Ifilm video wasn't it? How many people had actually sat through that/knew about it prior to something appearing in the papers/BBC then everyone is offended about it.

I don't agree with most of what Fury says but if he says something that annoys me I just wouldn't listen to that interview/his interviews again. Don't get me wrong if his comments were incitement then it might be different but as far as I've read/heard they weren't.

No, me either, but I'd imagine that if I were gay, or a woman, I might feel slightly differently.

He's now the heavyweight champion of the world, if he goes around making stupid comments, he's going to draw fire. He needs a P.R team to shut him up, or he will just have to accept the criticism, and possible lawsuits he might incur if he wants to continue down the path he's on.

I know people think it's hyper sensitive, but imagine he was saying 'Well, I don't agree with mixed marriages - people should stick to their own' - I know you might say this is quite an extrapolation, but it isn't really.

I'm not some hypersensitive type, but I do think his comments are offensive, and very ignorant. Sure, it's not a popularity contest, and he is entitled to his beliefs, but if he's a high profile public figure, with a public platform, then nobody can really complain when his comments cause consternation. With the plaudits, come the brickbats.

The question beneath of course, and proposed by the community from which he comes, is that plaudits didn't come as they should've done or would've done if he'd been a nice, softly spoken type, yes sir, please sir, three bags full sir?

It sharpened the sense of haste with which the brickbats arrived.

[orbtastic]

Can you imagine Fury posting the sort of rehearsed motivational guff and lightweight platitudes that Joshua posts on social media? Jeez.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Spot on. I can't stand the modern idea of being offended by absolutely everything. The stuff about Jessica Enis etc was said in that hour long Ifilm video wasn't it? How many people had actually sat through that/knew about it prior to something appearing in the papers/BBC then everyone is offended about it.

I don't agree with most of what Fury says but if he says something that annoys me I just wouldn't listen to that interview/his interviews again. Don't get me wrong if his comments were incitement then it might be different but as far as I've read/heard they weren't.

No, me either, but I'd imagine that if I were gay, or a woman, I might feel slightly differently.

He's now the heavyweight champion of the world, if he goes around making stupid comments, he's going to draw fire. He needs a P.R team to shut him up, or he will just have to accept the criticism, and possible lawsuits he might incur if he wants to continue down the path he's on.

I know people think it's hyper sensitive, but imagine he was saying 'Well, I don't agree with mixed marriages - people should stick to their own' - I know you might say this is quite an extrapolation, but it isn't really.

I'm not some hypersensitive type, but I do think his comments are offensive, and very ignorant. Sure, it's not a popularity contest, and he is entitled to his beliefs, but if he's a high profile public figure, with a public platform, then nobody can really complain when his comments cause consternation. With the plaudits, come the brickbats.

The question beneath of course, and proposed by the community from which he comes, is that plaudits didn't come as they should've done or would've done if he'd been a nice, softly spoken type, yes sir, please sir, three bags full sir?

It sharpened the sense of haste with which the brickbats arrived.

Fury is a divisive figure, and I think intentionally so, I don't think it's the fact he's a traveller, though for some who harbour feelings against that community, perhaps it is so. It's early days, let's see how long he reigns for, and what he comes out with during that reign. It's a high profile position, and with that, comes some difficulties.

[los2]

Can you imagine Fury posting the sort of rehearsed motivational guff and lightweight platitudes that Joshua posts on social media? Jeez.

.........or joshua posting medival religious nonsense..........

[orbtastic]

Can you imagine Fury posting the sort of rehearsed motivational guff and lightweight platitudes that Joshua posts on social media? Jeez.

.........or joshua posting medival religious nonsense..........

Wouldn't surprise me if he started posting some believe/belief stuff at some point.

[reggaereggae]

What a waste of resources. the state will soon be investigating people for 'thought' crimes. They can't even show up if someones house has been burgled, but if someone says something outside the allowed PC bubble and the entire police force moves into action

[SNG]

Greg Ritherford is threatening to pull out of BBC Spoty if Tyson isn't dropped.

Oh well.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... tlist.html

To try and relate to this better, if these comments were racist instead of sexist/homophobic, I would no longer support Fury, watch his interviews or buy any future PPVs. However I wouldn't even think about starting a petition or reporting him to the police.

What's the difference for you?

[reggaereggae]

Greg Ritherford is threatening to pull out of BBC Spoty if Tyson isn't dropped.

Oh well.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... tlist.html

What a pr1ck, I bet he hasnt even read the article. He's just being holier than thou and getting his name in the paper.

What a pathetic witchunt..... sick of 1984 style repression of free speech