Petition supporting Tyson Fury!

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by iceferg, Dec 9, 2015.


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  1. moog

    moog Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I signed it too. I am not a traveller but i believe Tyson is the one who is on the receiving end of such attacks because he is a traveller, so many of those slagging him off are bigoted.
     
    moog, Dec 10, 2015
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  2. newobserver

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    I checked - it was 2012 and he said it was his cousins whilst he was training - he said they were laughing at stuff they had said and he apologised

    3 years ago - yet they still let him fight for a world title?

    Has the BBC reporter apologised yet or is it just Tyson who has to say sorry for things he is supposed to have said in the past?
     
    newobserver, Dec 10, 2015
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  3. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And that is your individual right. But Fury has given that up on the public side. He is a big face in boxing now, and is obliged to take on these responsibilities as Heavyweight Champion.

    As you suggest in a greater context nothing is real, everything is but fantasy and perception.
     
    TBooze, Dec 10, 2015
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  4. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think the vast majority of people agree with the vast majority of 'things', we would not be able to function at this level otherwise. That is a given.

    What these forums are for is to discuss the differences. And Fury's past behaviour is not what is expected of someone in his position. The debate is: If Fury wants to challenge that, what will be done?
     
    TBooze, Dec 10, 2015
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  5. Unforgiven

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    I agree. Fury smashed it.
    Totally destroyed the opposition with his intellect, strange as that sounds. :lol:
     
    Unforgiven, Dec 10, 2015
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  6. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I didn't see that is there a link mate?
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  7. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    So Kelly Maloney when he still called himself Frank made several anti-gay comments people forget that and he made ***ist comments.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  8. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As far as I was aware he was fined for calling Bellew and Price gay lovers.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  9. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Look you're talking a load of nonsense. For the last time it's not against the rules of being a heavyweight champion to not be Christian or express Christian views it's that simple.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  10. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Thanks a lot mate the bigotry from these PC types has to stop. Fury is being singled out unfairly.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  11. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    There clearly is no problem being a Christian, indeed for many years it was a prerequisite.

    You also need to realize you are not the Pope, you are the Heavyweight Champion of the World with a responsibility, with such a title, to represent boxing; and boxing is with the possible exception of Football the most diverse sport in the world.

    Fury can indeed try and change that, or be part of the status quo; either way he is going to have to be a lot more competent than he and his team have been thus far.
     
    TBooze, Dec 10, 2015
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  12. Unforgiven

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    Radio show. Well worth a listen.

    [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bchgr[/url]
     
    Unforgiven, Dec 10, 2015
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  13. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Cheers mate appreciate it a lot.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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  14. Unforgiven

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    Surely Muhammad Ali is celebrated to this day precisely because he turned the whole heavyweight champion's "responsibility to be X, Y or Z" on its head.

    Ali went his own way, and spoke about things - very controversial things - that had absolutely nothing to do with boxing.
    And he's acknowledged as a groundbreaking athlete for that.
     
    Unforgiven, Dec 10, 2015
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  15. iceferg

    iceferg Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Being the champion of the world means you have to win in the boxing ring and keep winning to stay there. People can tune in to see you win or tune in to see you lose or ignore you but you have no obligation to say or refrain from saying anything.

    As for diversity it doesn't get more diverse than Christianity since they believe all humans are created by God.

    Stop being a hypocrit. Any more of your pretentious bile and I'm blocking you.
     
    iceferg, Dec 10, 2015
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