Tyson Fury: World heavyweight champion’s highs and lows as his career sits in tatters as Gyspy King ‘tests positive for cocaine’
Tyson Fury has could be stripped of his world title belts after 'testing positive for cocaine'
THE Tyson Fury story has taken another turn for the worst following his apparent 'positive drug test for cocaine'.
Was the win over Wladimir Klitschkothe last time we see the Gypsy King in the ring? SunSport charts the rise and fall of Tyson Fury.
Fury represented England and Ireland as an amateur and made his professional debut on the Carl Froch vs Jean Pascal undercard in December 2008.
At 20, Fury beat Bela Gyongyosi via a technical knock out.
Seven fights later, Fury controversially won the English title against John McDermott in 2009 - he was forced to fight McDermott again nine months later and won inside the distance.
The Gypsy King made his American debut in New York, coming from behind off the canvas to stop Steve Cunningham in seven rounds.
Before his stateside debut, Fury told an interviewer that he would "hang" his own sister if she was promiscuous.
That same year he was fined £3,000 by the British Boxing Board of Control for calling David Price and Tony Bellew "Gay Lovers".
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David Haye cancelled two fights with Fury due to injury twice in the space of six months.
The Gypsy King claimed the Hayemaker was "too scared" to fight him on both occasions.
Before becoming world champion, Fury called for performance enhancing drugs to be permitted in all sports.
He said: "Why don't they just make drugs totally legal in sports, then everybody would be taking drugs and then it would be fully fair then, wouldn't it?
"It's none of my concern really, but if the governing bodies want to do that then I think it would be a bit fairer because you've got all them people taking drugs and when you face a man who is not taking drugs it becomes unfair, doesn't it?"
While in training for the Klitschko rematch, the Fury camp posted a bizarre video online putting the world to rights with his controversial views on rape and bestiality.
He was condemned for his offensive remarks towards the Jewish community claiming the government were being "brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations".
He later apologised for his comments.
Fury then won the heavyweight title - despite being a massive underdog - with a masterful performance over Klitschko.
But he sparked more controversy when he linked homosexuality with paedophilia, his BBC Sports Personality of the Year nomination in 2015 also caused public outrage.
He described Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis-Hill as a woman who "slaps up good" and that "a woman's best place is in the kitchen and on her back".
The Gypsy King's was meant to fight Klitschko in a rematch, but pulled out due to an injury.
Weeks later he turned up at Euro 2016 and was seen buying rounds and drinking with England fans.
He then pulled out of a second proposed rematch with Klitschko, with his uncle and trainer, Hughie, arguing that he wasn't mentally ready.
His final alleged indiscretion could well be the biggest stain on his character.
A reported failed drug test for cocaine.