TYSON FURY was at the centre of a sexist storm yesterday after a video emerged of him saying: “A woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back.”
The new world heavyweight champion made headlines last weekend when he ended Wladimir Klitschko’s decade-long reign of the division.
But this isn’t the first time the self-proclaimed Gypsy King will find that his disgusting comments are not shared by the wider public.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Mary Kom’s fists made history in the boxing world. Malak Mesleh’s never got the chance. One story ends in glory, the other in grief — but both highlight the defiance of women who dare to fight, writes JOHN WIGHT


