Petition calls for BBC to axe @Tyson_Fury from Sport Personality shortlist #BBCNolan

Dec 07, 2015, 10:08 AM

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Should the BBC remove boxer Tyson Fury from the Sports Personality of the year final? That's the call after an online petition has received more than 60,000 signatures. It comes after recent remarks made by the newly crowd heavyweight champion of the world in which he said there are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries. He also referred to fellow nominee athlete Jessica Ennis Hill as someone who slaps up good and when she's got a dress on she looks quite fit. Stephen was joined by commentators Brendan Mulgrew and Adrianne Peltz and Peter Fury is Tyson's uncle and trainer