Tyson Fury on doping: Heavyweight boxer calls for drugs to be “totally legal in sports”
Heavyweight world title contender Tyson Fury has said boxing could solve a "big problem" with doping by allowing fighters free rein to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Fury, who takes on Wladimir Klitschko for the world heavyweight title in Dusseldorf on Saturday, has claimed he was "all open" for drugs if it created more of a level playing field.
"Why don't they just make drugs totally legal in sports, then everybody would be taking drugs, then it would be fully fair then, wouldn't it?" Fury said in an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live.
"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 it becomes unfair, doesn't it?
"It's a disadvantage. So this is why it's a big scene, but if everyone was taking drugs then it would be fairer I think because you can't tell me that 99 per cent of these sports people ain't taking drugs when they've got bodies like Greek gods."
Fury, no stranger to courting controversy with outlandish comments, said his natural body being like "jelly" proved he had not doped.
Yet boxing has not totally avoided the doping scandals that have rocked other sports such as athletics in recent years.
Six British boxers are currently serving suspensions from the UK Anti-Doping Agency, while high-profile bouts such as Mayweather v Pacquiao have previously been derailed by drug testing disputes.