Irish Daily Mail

WARREN GOES ON THE ATTACK

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who says he lied when he submitted two written statements to the Furys’ legal team in 2017 to say he had supplied the fighters with uncastrate­d wild boar. The defence blamed the presence of nandrolone metabolite­s on the ‘ingestion of offal of uncastrate­d wild boar or pig, or alternativ­ely from contaminat­ed supplement­s’. Carefoot has heaped huge uncertaint­y over the fighters by retracting the contents of his statements — copies of which have been seen by Sportsmail. They are marked ‘before the National Anti-Doping Panel between UK Anti-Doping v Tyson Luke Fury and Hughie Lewis Fury’ and their possible use in the Furys’ defence will be of particular relevance to any new UKAD inquiry. The Furys have not yet addressed the allegation­s, which include a claim from Carefoot that he was promised £25,000 from a member of their entourage, via a friend, for his complicity. The identity of the entourage member is known to Sportsmail. Fury posted a cryptic social media message yesterday in which he and an acquaintan­ce were dressed as Batman and Robin, with the words: ‘We was doing a half marathon today but got cancel for ovs reasons, but we gonna do a half marathon at home, Batman & robin. @kris ti an black lock@ top rank@wbc boxing @mt kg lob al@ frank_ warren_ official don’t fear we coming...’ Fury and his cousin failed their respective drugs tests in February 2015 and charges were brought in June 2016. It was not until December 2017 that the matter with UKAD was resolved with a deal that saw them handed two-year bans, backdated to December 2015. After battles with mental health, alcohol and recreation­al drugs, which contribute­d to Fury being stripped of the world titles he won against Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, he returned to the heavyweigh­t pinnacle by beating Deontay Wilder for the WBC belt last month. Tyson Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren hit back strongly at Carefoot, saying in a statement: ‘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 for money. I told him to clear off and get in contact with UKAD. He chose not to speak to UKAD but instead spoke to a newspaper.’

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