Tyson Fury has once again courted controversy with another interview in which he backed up remarks he made regarding women in sport.
Speaking at ringside after a fight between Lenny Daws and Spain's Ruben Nieto, Tyson Fury said that after a week in which he found himself splashed all over the newspapers as a result of his comments he had been expecting a huge spike in media interest after he claimed the title.
Despite the negative slant of the press coverage, he said "they can say what they want about me, but they can't knock my achievement, can they? I beat the man that nobody could beat, so until somebody can go in and beat him again [...] then they can suck my balls".
Addressing the controversy over the remarks he made about women in sport, Fury said that "if giving a woman a compliment saying she looks good in a dress is bad, then I'll just say it again: women look good in dresses", and went on to repeat the phrase several times, and pressing his interviewer to repeat it also.
He added that he stands up for his beliefs and that "my wife's there, her job is cooking and cleaning, looking after these kids, that's it. No other. She does get to make some decisions; what she's going to cook me for tea when I get home".
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When asked about the petition to have him removed from the nominations for Sports Personality of the Year awards, he labelled those who have signed it as "50,000 wankers mate, and if anyone else wants to add to them, they can add to the numbers".
Fury stated that he wasn't interested in winning the award from the BBC, but that "if it comes to personality, there's only one winner. If it comes to sporting achievements, there's only one winner".
Recently, he took to Twitter to further reinforce the view that he didn't want the award, saying (with his tongue somewhat in his cheek) that he wasn't a good role model and it should go to someone else.
Hopefully I don't win @BBCSPOTY as I'm not the best roll model in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it, ðŸ™ðŸ™ðŸ™ðŸ™ðŸ™ðŸ™
— Gypsy King (@Tyson_Fury) December 4, 2015
However, in Saturday night's interview, he stated that he believed he was a good role model as "people should look up to me, young kids [...] I show how men should really be, real men".
He also stated that he doesn't regret his decision to the interview with the Daily Mail that has caused much of the controversy, as he believes what he said "is all true".
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