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Fury vacates 2 world titles

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HEAVYWEIGHT champion Tyson Fury announced he is voluntarily vacating his WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles with immediate effect to fully focus on his medical treatment and recovery.

Fury recently withdrew from a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko for the second time after being declared “medically unfit.”

Sky Sports in Britain reported: “The undefeated boxer reportedly failed a drug test in the United States and he courted more controversy recently when he told Rolling Stone magazine in a recent interview he has ‘done lots of cocaine’ in a bid to battle depression.”

The British Boxing Board of Control were set to discuss removing Fury’s license on Wednesday, which would have seen him stripped of the belts, but the boxer has beaten them to the punch by vacating them voluntarily.

Fury claimed a unanimous decision over Klitschko to end the latter’s 11-year reign as heavyweight champion.

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Sky Sports quoted Fury: “I feel that it is only fair and right and for the good of boxing to keep the titles active and allow the other contenders to fight for the vacant belts that I proudly won and held as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world when I defeated the long-standing champion Wladimir Klitschko.” 

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