TYSON’S DRUG BRIBE CLAIM IS A GIANT BOAR
BOXING COUSINS’ BATTLE
TYSON FURY’S co-promoter Frank Warren has dismissed claims a member of the Gypsy King’s team offered a farmer £25,000 to lie over his failed drugs test as “rubbish”.
Fury and his cousin Hughie Fury tested positive for the banned substance nandrolone in 2015 and blamed it on eating uncastrated wild boar.
Lancashire farmer Martin Carefoot claims he was offered £25,000 by someone from Fury’s entourage to lie to UK AntiDoping he had supplied them with wild boar.
Warren says Carefoot contacted him in October asking him for money. The Queensberry Promotions chief claims Carefoot cannot be believed and he does not expect UKAD to sanction the unbeaten WBC heavyweight champ again.
Warren, who was not working with Fury at the time of the failed test, said: “The farmer making these outrageous allegations sent me a letter last October, full of errors and basically telling me he had committed perjury by signing statements under oath and lying.
“When I called him he asked by DaViD anDeRSon sport@dailyrecord.co.uk for money. I told him to clear off and get in contact with UKAD. He chose not to speak to UKAD but instead speak to a newspaper.
“How anybody can take this man seriously is beyond belief. Tyson has never met this man in his life.
“What a load of rubbish. We will leave this with UKAD to look into and we don’t expect it to go any further.”
The Fury cousins tested positive in February 2015 but the failed tests were not revealed until June 2016, by which time Tyson had beaten Wladimir Klitschko in November to claim the WBA Super, IBF and WBO titles. UKAD spent £600,000 investigating the Furys before reaching a settlement with them in December 2017 amid fears the spiralling costs of the case could bankrupt the body.
UKAD were worried Tyson could sue for millions over lost earnings if he won his case. The cousins agreed to accept two-year backdated bans that cleared them to resume their careers.
Fury, 31, returned to the ring in June 2018 under Warren’s banner after being out since beating Klitschko as he fought depression.
He completed his remarkable comeback when he dethroned WBC champ Deontay Wilder last month to become world No.1 again in a fight that earned him over £31million.