A single line towards the end of Frank Warren’s statement on Sunday said it all: “We’ll leave this with UKAD to look into and don’t expect it to go any further.”



The promoter was responding to an interview in the Mail on Sunday with a farmer who claims he was offered £25,000 by a member of Team Fury to lie to UK Anti-Doping about supplying wild boar to the Fury family in 2015. The Lancashire farmer, Martin Carefoot, says that the money was offered in exchange for him providing written statements claiming that he supplied “one fully-butchered wild boar pig to Team Fury generally every three to six weeks.”



Now, Carefoot says that was a complete fabrication, that he had actually never kept wild boar at his farm or killed one.



Why the obsession with the pigs?



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