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Fury vacates world titles
- Updated: October 12, 2016
Tyson Fury has voluntarily vacated his WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles with immediate effect to fully focus on his medical treatment and recovery, the boxer has announced.
Fury recently withdrew from a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko for the second time after being declared “medically unfit”.
The undefeated boxer reportedly failed a drugs test in the United States and he courted more controversy recently when told Rolling Stone magazine in a recent interview he has “done lots of cocaine” in a bid to battle depression.
The British Boxing Board of Control were set to discuss removing Fury’s license on Wednesday, which would have seen him stripped of the belts, but the boxer has beaten them to the punch by vacating them voluntarily.
“I feel that it is only fair and right and for the good of boxing to keep the titles active and allow the other …
