Tyson Fury livens up yawn-inducing contest

He may not be everybody's favourite. But at least boxing champ Tyson Fury makes the BBC's Sport Personality of the Year contest worth watching.

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Tyson Fury: unattractively crude, but a genuine personality

Tyson Fury, says Dominic Lawson in the Daily Mail, is about as far removed as one can imagine "from the PR-obsessed, homogenised, ineffably bland world of your standard modern-day sports star". After winning the world heavyweight boxing championship in Dusseldorf (plus £4m in prize money), he decided against flying home by private jet and returned instead by driving to Rotterdam and taking the ferry to Hull.

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