Ailing Fury feels he is against ropes

TYSON Fury is “seeking help” his trainer said on Monday after the British world heavyweight champion pulled out of his title rematch with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko for the second time.

Fury was declared “medically unfit” to fight last week.

The 28-year-old champion — who sensationally took the world title off long-time holder Klitschko in 2015 — had already postponed the fight once in 2016 because of an ankle injury.

Peter Fury, Tyson’s uncle and trainer, said his nephew was “at an all-time low” following allegations of doping levelled against him.

“I think it’s a culmination of things,” Peter Fury said. “When he won the world title, the way he was treated, he said to me: ‘I came back off the boat, I picked up the paper, I expected to be celebrated.’ Straight away, he said, the hate campaign started.

“He was complaining about it a lot but said: ‘Okay, we’ve got to accept it. I’ve won the world title and this is how I’m treated. There’s almost been a vendetta against me since I’ve won it’.

“On many occasions he has asked: ‘What’s it for? Because if I’m not being credited for the work I’ve done and what I’ve achieved, why am I bothering?’ So I think it’s created a lot of negativity in him as a person and it’s just the lack of respect he’s received on a global scale, it’s obviously had an effect.”

Peter Fury denied suggestions that Fury’s fitness problems were a device to get the Klitschko rematch postponed.

Meanwhile, top-flight British boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who represents Fury’s domestic rival Anthony Joshua, queried whether Fury would return to the ring at all.

“I believe he will be stripped of all his titles,” Hearn was quoted as saying in The Times. “I saw a photo of him three days ago and he looked huge for a guy that was fighting in five weeks.”