Wladimir Klitschko has compared Tyson Fury to Adolf Hitler and called for him to be stripped as a world champion while Anthony Joshua revealed he was more terrified of spiders than his opponents - just another routine day in boxing's heavyweight division.
Klitschko, beaten by Fury in November last year and preparing for the rematch in Manchester on July 9, launched an attack on the Briton, now holder of the World Boxing Organisation, World Boxing Association and The Ring Magazine belts.
Klitschko accused Fury of being anti-semitic, homophobic and sexist after comments on a YouTube internet video last month said: "I'm fighting a guy who can't hold his mouth on certain things. I was in shock at his statements about women, the gay community and when he got to the Jewish people he sounded like Hitler. The man is an imbecile."
"You cannot put it all together as a representation of the sport of boxing. He's an imbecile champion," added Klitschko, talking from his Tyrolean hideaway in Austria.
"It puts the world of boxing in the wrong spot. He represents not just himself, but the sanctioning bodies, a lot of boxing fans in general, it's not just about him and he needs understanding but he obviously doesn't. In this crazy world when we can see all that's going on, we don't need someone having this stage and bringing hate to Jewish people, I can't accept.
