TYSON FURY’S much-delayed UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) hearing resumed yesterday in London, though a verdict is not expected until next year.

The 29-year-old former heavyweight champion and his cousin and fellow heavyweight fighter Hughie Fury, 23, tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone in February 2015.

The pair, however, were not charged by UKAD until June 2016, by which time Tyson Fury had beaten Wladimir Klitschko. A rematch with the Ukrainian was scheduled for July 2016, but Fury postponed the fight, citing a sprained ankle, on the same day the UKAD charge was announced.