Tyson Fury set to lose his boxing licence after admitting cocaine binges in his battle against depression
World heavyweight champion faces being banished from the ring by British Boxing Board of Control next week
TYSON FURY is set to be barred from boxing by having his licence withdrawn in the wake of his cocaine binge shame.
World heavyweight champion Fury has admitted taking the banned class-A drug in a shocking interview where he reveals his battle against depression.
And now the British Boxing Board of Control are ready to throw the book at the 28-year-old by taking his licence to fight away from him.
The BBBofC meet next Wednesday to discuss Fury's spiral into disgrace and barring him from the sport is an option they are seriously considering.
They did the same with Ricky Hatton when his own cocaine battle was revealed six years go, and take a dim view of drug use in the sport.
Should they withdraw the licence at the October 12 meeting, Fury would almost certainly lose his WBO and WBA world titles because he would not be able to defend them.
BBBofC general secretary Robert Smith said: "The Board meets next week and we'll discuss it, I'm fairly sure.
"Cocaine is against the law of the land, we can't ignore the law of the land. It's drug use and we will deal with it accordingly.
"All of Mr Fury's recent issues will be discussed at that point, after which we'll see what we are going to do.
"He is licenced by us. The sanctioning bodies, the WBO, WBA - they are not governing bodies - they can strip him, declare the titles vacant or he can vacate them.
"We deal with the licence, so in theory if we were to suspend him they would have no choice but to strip him because he can't defend them, can he?
"There are a number of issues with Mr Fury that need to be considered that have been well publicised.
"Mr Hatton has his licence withdrawn and had a hearing. You can't just take a man's licence away without taking the proper procedures, if we decide that's the right thing to do."
Fury has started falling apart in the full glare of the public gaze since it emerged his world title defence against Wladimir Klitschko was cancelled last month.
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Last week it emerged the boxer had failed a random drugs test which picked up traces of cocaine in the build up to his rematch with Klitschko.
And earlier this week he appeared to announce his retirement from the sport in a foul mouthed tweet - only to then retract that decision hours later.