Tyson Fury won't lose world title over doping allegation says WBC chief

Tyson Fury's reign as world heavyweight champion will t be ended by new claims over an alleged drug-testing scam, according to WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman. It was alleged in a Mail on Sunday report a farmer was offered money to provide an alibi for Fury's failed drugs test in 2015. Fury and his cousin Hughie tested positive for nandrolone in 2015, which y subsequently blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar meat, citing a farmer called Martin Carefoot who claimed to have provided m with product.

Fury won't lose world title 

After an expensive and elongated stand-off with UK Anti-Doping, Fury and Hughie received retrospective two-year bans and were able to resume ir careers in December 2017. In Mail report, Carefoot denied having provided Fury team with meat, insisting he was offered $25,000 to make up story in order to aid ir case. But Sulaiman, whose WBC belt Fury won against Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas last month, said allegations would have " impact" on his reign as champion.

"Personally, I prefer to believe Tyson Fury ahead of someone who has already admitted to lying in legal documents for financial gain," Sulaiman told Sun.

" person who has claimed he accepted money to lie should be one on trial, in my personal opinion, especially when he has waited five years to tell his story.

"Secondly, around this time Tyson was t involved with WBC, he did t fight Klitschko for WBC belt, it was for or titles, so this issue does t impact on him being our heavyweight world champion." Fury's promoter Frank Warren, who was t involved at time, told Sun he had previously been sent letters by Carefoot.

Im credits: AP