Boxing: Tyson Fury allowed to fight again

The former boxing world champion and Klitschko driver Tyson Fury is allowed to return to the ring after a backdating doping ban.

The UKAD, the British Anti-Doping Agency, announced on Tuesday that the 29-year-old has accepted violations of UKAD’s anti-doping guidelines. Fury had been positively tested for the banned steroid nandrolone in Ferbruar 2015. The two-year ban against Fury was dated by the Anti-Doping Agency to 13th place. December 2015.

“In recognition of the respective counter-arguments and the risks inherent in the dispute settlement procedure, each party has accepted a compromise,”says an opinion from UKAD.

Fury had always denied violations of the British anti-doping rules and argued that the increased nandrolone value was due to the consumption of meat from an uncastered wild boar.

Fury has not stood in the ring since his surprising triumph in Düsseldorf in November 2015 against Vladimir Klitschko, who has since retired. He has returned his WBA, IBF and WBO World Cup belts.