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Fury was charged with a doping offence by UKAD in June 2016.
In August 2016, Fury's legal team said the would sue UKAD over
the allegations, because tests taken in March and May 2015
showed contradictory results.
The 28-year-old Fury vacated his titles and his boxing license
was suspended in October 2016 pending investigation after he
admitted to consuming cocaine and dealing with mental health
issues.
"I've never taken a drug in my life," he told The Daily
Telegraph.
"These people can say what they like but I'm suing them for what
they have done to me ... I have been tested 50 to 60 times,
sometimes three times in a week, blood and urine. This went on
from way before the Klitschko fight.
"If I tested positive then why didn't they ban me then? It never
made any sense to me. I even had a meeting with them and they
said I had nothing to worry about. Fifteen months later they say
they are suspending my license."
Fury traded barbs with current world heavyweight champion
Anthony Joshua on social media during the build-up to and after
Joshua's victory over Wladimir Klitschko on April 29.
Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, denied reports of a scheduled
bout between the two, since Fury has yet to regain his license,
and if he is found guilty on Monday, he could face a lengthy ban
from the sport.
Fury also said that he was being harassed by the UKAD, after
they administered a random drugs test last Friday.
"I was very shocked, Fury said. "But they said they had come
here to give me a random drugs test. With all that is going on,
they still expect me to be super nice to them, so I was.
"I explained to them that ... that I've been out of the ring for
18 months, but UKAD were insistent on testing me on Friday.
Perhaps they wanted me to say 'go away', so they could give me
an automatic ban. I let them test me, I said go ahead, because I
have nothing to hide. But it's like harassment."
(Reporting by Aditi Prakash in BengaluruL, editing by Larry
King)
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