Tyson Fury to face eight-year ban from boxing
UK Anti-Doping has said that Tyson Fury and brother, Hughie Fury will face possible eight-year suspensions if found guilty of tampering with an initial investigation which led to backdated two-year bans for the Furys in 2017 for their nandrolone positives .
The body will investigate after explosive allegations that a member of their team offered a farmer £25,000 to lie about how they each failed a drugs test in 2015.
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This came after the startling claims of Lancashire farmer Martin Carefoot, who says he lied when he submitted two written statements to the Furys’ legal team in 2017 to say he had supplied the fighters with uncastrated wild boar.
The defence blamed the presence of nadrolone metabolites on the ‘ingestion of offal of uncastrated wild boar or pig, or alternatively from contaminated supplements’.
Carefoot has heaped huge uncertainty over the fighters by retracting the contents of his statements, copies of which have seen by Sportsmail. They are marked ‘before the National Anti-Doping Panel between UK Anti-Doping v Tyson Luke Fury and Hughie Lewis Fury’, and their possible use in the Furys’ defence will be of particular relevance to any new UKAD inquiry.
The Furys have not yet addressed the allegations, which include a claim from Carefoot that he was promised £25,000 from a member of their entourage, via a friend, for his complicity.
