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Tyson Fury tests positive for cocaine, could be stripped of heavyweight belts

By Jack Crosby

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Heaveyweight Champion Tyson Fury is interviewed ahead of the vacant WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship contest between Hughie Fury and Fred Kassi at Copper Box Arena on April 30, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Morton/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Heaveyweight Champion Tyson Fury is interviewed ahead of the vacant WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship contest between Hughie Fury and Fred Kassi at Copper Box Arena on April 30, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Morton/Getty Images) /
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Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has tested positive for cocaine and could be forced to relinquish his belts

If people were looking forward to eventually seeing the rematch between heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former champion Wladimir Klitschko, well, that almost certainly will not be happening now. According to a report from ESPN’s Dan Rafael, Fury, the WBA, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion tested positive for cocaine as part of a random urine sample that was taken back on September 22.

As for the ramifications coming out of this positive test, well, they’re gonna be kinda harsh. Rafael noted that because of the positive test, Fury will likely be stripped of all three of his heavyweight belts, and furthermore, there could be a more severe punishment handed down as well from all of this.

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Fury stunned the world last year when he was the man to finally stop Klitschko in maybe one of the more boring heavyweight fights that we have ever seen. However, he came out the victor nonetheless, making him one of the heavyweight champions of the world along with Deontay Wilder of the United States, who currently holds the WBC heavyweight championship.

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A rematch was scheduled to take place between Fury and Klitschko on October 29, but the champ pulled out of the bout due to being what they deemed being “medically unfit.” But now, we might actually know what was meant by that description. So, again, any hope of seeing Fury step into the ring with one of the best heavyweights of this generation in Klitschko once again is completely out the window for the foreseeable future.

And, of course, any hope that we were holding out of seeing Fury step into the ring against the hard-hitting Wilder to see who the real heavyweight champ of the world really is is gone as well.

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