Tyson Fury has threatened to go on national TV and throw his IBF championship belt in the trash if he is stripped of the title.
The IBF have stated that they will strip the Manchester boxer of their title if he fights Wladimir Klitschko in his next fight instead of the IBF-mandated challenger of Vyacheslav Glazkov .
Fury won the IBF championship along with the WBO and WBA titles when he defeated Klitschko in November – and the Ukrainian has enacted a clause in the pre-fight contract which grants him an immediate re-match.
Peter Fury, Tyson’s uncle and trainer, told Boxing News: “We’re going to appeal to them but if they insist on stripping us, then that belt will go in the dustbin because their belt will mean nothing.
“If they want to treat us with such disrespect then Tyson Fury will go on national television and throw that belt in the bin.
“They’re not giving him the chance to hold that belt, he’s come all this way in boxing to unify the division. It’s a very, very poor start from the IBF to suddenly say, ‘We’re going to strip you,’ when we’ve got obligations to Wladimir Klitschko – it’s all in the paperwork.
“The IBF need to get a grip with it, they need to speak with us and they need to get behind Tyson Fury.”
