Boxing Champ Tyson Fury Kisses Gay Man To Prove He’s Not Homophobic
A month after arguing against homosexuality being legal, British boxer Tyson Fury apparently kissed a gay man on the cheeks in an effort to prove he’s not a homophobe.
The smooches came after a gay man confronted Fury, 27, in a bar in Poulton-le-Fylde, near Lancashire, England, on Dec. 16. Paul Cole, a 41-year-old shop manager, told The Sun that he wanted to express his distaste for controversial remarks Fury had made about homosexuality in a November interview with the Daily Mail.
“I told him, ‘I can’t stand you.’ He said he wasn’t homophobic and suddenly rubbed my beard and kissed me on both cheeks,” Cole said. The boxer, who defeated Wladimir Klitschko to become WBA and WBO world heavyweight champion in November, then proudly posed with Cole for a series of cozy-looking selfies.
Whether or not Fury’s friendly pecks will change his public image, however, is another story. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Fury argued that “the devil is very strong at the minute, very strong, and I believe the end is near,” and cited the wider acceptance of gay rights as evidence.
“There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s pedophilia,” he said in the interview. “Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalized?”
The remarks prompted over 138,000 people to sign a petition to remove Fury from consideration for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015 because of his views on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
“The BBC clearly do not understand that by nominating Fury, who has on a number of occasions expressed homophobic views and compared homosexuality to pedophilia, they are putting him up as a role model to young people all over the U.K. and the world,” the petition reads.
Of course, the Daily Mail interview wasn’t the first time Fury had courted controversy with anti-gay remarks. In 2013, he referred to fellow boxer Tony Bellew as the “gay lover” of David Price, another fighter.
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20 Comments
ken
December 18, 04:44Gay nigerians do u see? Do you see what standing together can do? 138000 is enough to turn a str8 homophobe completely gay! Lol
Everything is not just sex sex sex, body parts and more sex
Mandy
December 18, 04:54Lol. I read this report on Huffington Post. They weren’t buying Tyson Fury’s antics there.
Maximus
December 18, 06:15And I can kiss a woman too just to show the world I’m not pussy-phobic..mtchew… ???
Jamie
December 18, 06:22Barely…for me!!!
Zage
December 18, 06:19Loool this dude should rest already, all this face saving antics won’t help.
Colossus
December 18, 06:24I’m not buying this. A porn video of him getting down on another man is all I need to reconsider his homophobic stance.
Mandy
December 18, 06:59ROTFLMAO. A la Yusaf Mack style.
Dennis Macaulay
December 18, 07:12Naaaaaa! I’m not buying this crap!
Delle
December 18, 07:25I could as well kiss the living daylights out of a lady today, does that make me straight? Oh, and if he truly wanted to prove not being homophobic point, why pecking? Pecking? Seriously? Who doesn’t peck in this world? That guy is just a fake ass nigga. I’m not convinced!
NEXT!
Keredim
December 18, 13:00He ain’t no ‘nigga’ either ?
sensei
December 18, 07:33The need to be accepted.
A very strong need!
Mitch
December 18, 07:38Too bad for you, Tyson. You failed to convince me. This action just reeks of falsehood
drizzle
December 18, 07:41Damage control.
Dude should rest or before you know he’ll be acting a gay porn to prove he ain’t homophobic.
JustJames
December 18, 08:52Haven’t read the story finish but talk about headline bait.. Pinky I am watching you via my crystal ball.. Don’t let me lay a hex on you
Pink Panther
December 18, 09:11ROTFLMAO!!! I was waiting for someone to call me out on that.
Lothario
December 18, 09:19Mcheeeeeww…. This one is obviously thirsty for that BBC award and is feeling threatened.
Eros
December 18, 10:31When you said BBC award something else popped up in my mind
ambivalentone
December 18, 10:55looool. u r just something else
Khaleesi
December 18, 10:35oh plzzz… Nigga you’re a homophobe who ought to be issued with a shiny new Nigerian passport and then deported to Nigeria where you belong – along with all your fellow fervent, passionate, bible clutching, religion inflamed contemporaries!!! **smacks gum and saunters off***
Keredim
December 18, 12:59He is not a “nigga”?.