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by Shiryn Ghermezian
Boxer Wladimir Klitschko said Tyson Fury should be banned from the boxing world. Photo: Twitter.
Britain’s world heavyweight champion, Taylor Fury, should be banned from boxing for making Nazi-like comments, a former world champion from the Ukraine said on Thursday, ahead of their upcoming match.
“I was in shock at his statements about women, the gay community, and when he got to the Jewish people, he sounded like Hitler,” Wladimir Klitschko told British media, according to Reuters. “We cannot have a champion like that. Either he needs to be shut up or shut down in the ring, or just suspended, because you cannot create more hate.”
Fury, 27, stirred controversy in May when he made derogatory comments about Jews during an interview that was posted online. He has since apologized for the remarks, but Klitschko said the boxing world would be better off without him.
Klitschko called his competitor an “imbecile champion,” and slammed the British boxer for “bring[ing] hate to the Jewish people.” He added, “I cannot accept that. We are one society. We cannot have a champion who creates the friction which generates hate. After women, gays and Jewish people, what next?”
Fury beat Klitschko to take the WBA, WBO and IBF belts in November 2015. That same year, over 100,000 people signed a petition to remove Fury from the BBC‘s Sports Personality of the Year for derogatory comments he made about women and homosexuals. Fury also apologized for those remarks.
Klitschko and Fury are scheduled to compete in a rematch for the world championship on July 9 in Manchester.
