Sheikh wanted Fury rematch on his yacht

05 February 2016 - 02:59 By Gareth A Davies, ©The Daily Telegraph

Nine-and-a-half weeks after he seized boxing's heavyweight throne, Tyson Fury has had time to reflect on the storm of controversy whipped up by some of his comments. It was outside the ring that the traveller from the fighting family crossed into the mainstream last year . Since dispatching Wladimir Klitschko to the wilderness in Dusseldorf, Fury the fighter has not changed, but the way in which he is perceived has. For better and for worse. And it has taken some getting used to.Revealing on Wednesday that the rematch with Klitschko had five countries in the mix to host their second encounter, and even more remarkably that a sheikh had offered $120-million (about R2-billion) to stage the rematch on board a luxury yacht.Fury revealed: "We even had negotiations to have it on a cruise ship. There was a sheikh in Dubai who owned a yacht which would fit only 120 people on it. He didn't want to broadcast the fight anywhere and he said he could sell 120 tickets at $1-million each."He didn't say how much I would get, but I probably would have had the biggest half of the $120-million, so I was all for it."The 27-year-old admitted he had given some thought to his controversial comments of the past couple of months."Life's too short for regrets, so I don't regret anything and I'm my own best PR. What PR could have got me to go jump in a ring with Deontay Wilder?"I'm the best promoter in this country for myself," Fury said of his face-off with Wilder, the World Boxing Council champion, in the US 11 days ago.Last week Fury appeared in front of the Boxing Board of Control for incendiary comments on homosexuals, paedophiles and women."I apologise if I've hurt anyone , but I don't apologise for my beliefs," he said...

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