World heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has explained his controversial comments about women.
The Manchester-born sportsman, who describes himself as the 'Gypsy King' due to his Irish traveller background, recently claimed that a woman's "best place is on her back".
Fury's controversial remarks have led to a petition, which has now reached 80,000 signatures, calling for the boxer to be removed from the shortlist of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
In an interview on BBC Radio 2, Fury explained his comments by saying: "I love my women and what I said goes for my wife alone. She knows her place, I know her place. That's our culture of people.
"That's nothing to do with the world or anybody else and if I was a normal person, I wasn't in the spotlight, no-one would be making a scene about what I say to my wife."
Fury was added to the SPOTY list after dethroning Wladimir Klitschko by beating him on points in Dusseldorf last month.
Danielle Joynson
