Tyson Fury stripped of his IBF title

Manchester fighter forfeits the IBF title for accepting a rematch with Klitschko next year

Tyson Fury
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Tyson Fury has been stripped of his IBF belt ten days after beating Wladimir Klitschko to become the heavyweight champion of the world. The 27-year-old Manchester fighter still holds the WBA and WBO belts (the WBC belt is held by American Deontay Wilder) but he forfeits the IBF title for accepting a rematch with Klitschko next year, rather than first fighting the IBF's mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov.

Fury beat Klitschko on points in Dusseldorf on 28 November and while most of the focus since then has been about whether he should be thrown off the BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist, Fury finds himself sanctioned by the IBF.

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