Tyson Fury will not be stripped of his heavyweight title despite new allegations concerning his drug-testing history, according to WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman.
The Mail on Sunday reported that a farmer had been offered money to provide an alibi for Fury's failed drugs test in 2015.
Fury and his cousin Hughie tested positive for nandrolone in 2015, which they subsequently blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar meat, citing a farmer called Martin Carefoot who claimed to have provided them with the product.
Fury and Hughie received retrospective two-year bans following an expensive and protracted stand-off with UK Anti-Doping, and were able to resume their careers in December 2017.
According to the Mail report, Carefoot denied he had provided the Fury team with the meat, saying he was offered £25,000 (Dh112,000) to go along with the story in order to aid the two fighters.
Fury pulled off a stunning victory to win the WBC belt from Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas last month, arguably the greatest performance by a British boxer on American soil.
When the new allegations were put to him, Sulaiman said they would have "no impact" on Fury's reign as the WBC champion.
"Personally, I prefer to believe Tyson Fury ahead of someone who has already admitted to lying in legal documents for financial gain," Sulaiman told The Sun.
"The person who has claimed he accepted money to lie should be the one on trial, in my personal opinion, especially when he has waited five years to tell his story.
"Secondly, around this time Tyson was not involved with the WBC, he did not fight [Wladimir] Klitschko for the WBC belt, it was for other titles, so this issue does not impact on him being our heavyweight world champion."
Fury made no mention of the allegations in an Instagram post on Sunday. The Briton, 31, said he was due to take part in a half-marathon before the event was called off due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Under a picture in which he and a friend posed in Batman and Robin outfits, Fury wrote: "We was doing a half marathon today but got cancel for ovs reasons, but we gonna do a half marathon at home, Batman & robin."
