Heavyweight boxer Fury compared homosexuality and abortion to paedophilia in an interview with The Mail on Sunday last month, before going on to win the IBF world heavyweight title against Wladimir Klitschko on 28 November.
Fury told journalist Oliver Holt that three things were going to happen “before the devil comes home”.
“One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia,” he said. “Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s that those first two would be legalised?”
Following his victory against Klitschko, Fury was named on the shortlist for the BBC SPOTY award alongside 11 other athletes, including long jumper Rutherford.