Kellie Maloney calls for action against Tyson Fury

Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury must face sanction from world boxing authorities over controversial remarks on homosexuality and women, says promoter Kellie Maloney.

Briton Fury stunned the boxing world when he defeated Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf last month to win the WBA, WBO and IBF world titles, the latter of which he has since been stripped of after failing to agree to a bout with mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov.

However, Fury has faced a backlash for comments made out of the ring and was accused of homophobia after he was quoted in an article in The Daily Mail as grouping homosexuality and abortion as being two of three "evils" alongside paedophilia.

Fury also came in for criticism when footage emerged of him making a string of seemingly sexist remarks, including the suggestion that Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill "slaps up good".

An online petition to have Fury removed from the shortlist for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Award has since received over 100,000 signatures , while the British Boxing Board of Control are to meet to discuss his comments.

But famed promoter Maloney says more needs to be done.

She told the BBC: "I believe the Board of Control are having a hearing. They will discuss it and he will be called up in front of the board, but what can they do to him?

"They can fine him. It means all the world governing bodies should take some action against him.

"I think his comments will harm him to get endorsements. I don't think you will see the likes of Adidas, Nike or any of the blue chip companies wanting to endorse Tyson Fury.

"I think he has made a terrible mistake and his management team should have realised this because they know what he is like."

The Sports Journalists Association (SJA) has also withdrawn an invitation to Fury to attend next week's British Sports Awards in London following threats made towards one of its members.

"We are aware of threats made by Tyson Fury against one of our members, and therefore feel that it would be incompatible with the nature of our event, or the interests of our members, our other guests and our sponsors, for us to continue to extend a welcome to Tyson Fury to our awards next week," an SJA spokesman said in a statement.