Tyson Fury is confident he will be exonerated over allegations he offered a farmer £25,000 to help cover up a failed drugs test.
A report in the Mail on Sunday alleges Martin Carefoot was offered the money to falsely claim he had sold Fury wild boar.
Fury and his fellow heavyweight brother Hughie failed a test for nandrolone in 2015 which they blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar.
The fighters were handed backdated two-year bans and were eligible to fight from December 2017 after UK Anti-Doping almost went bust over the £600,000 investigation.
Mr Carefoot now claims he was asked to lie about selling the animal to the Furys in exchange for the fee, but he was never paid.
In response to the allegations, Fury's promoter Frank Warren - who did not represent the fighter at the time - has said: "The farmer making these outrageous allegations sent me a letter last October, full of errors and basically telling me he had committed perjury by signing statements under oath and lying.
"When I called him, he asked for money. I told him to clear off and get in contact with UKAD. He chose not to speak to UKAD but instead speak to a newspaper.
"How anybody can take this man seriously is beyond belief. Tyson has never met this man in his life. What a load of rubbish. We’ll leave this with UKAD to look into and don’t expect it to go any further.
"It looks like while the football season has been paused, there’s nothing to write about and silly season has instead commenced."
UKAD have confirmed they are looking into the allegations.
Mr Carefoot told the Mail on Sunday: "I just went along with it, and they always dangled this carrot that I was going to get paid.
"When things got quite serious, they offered me a sum of money before it went to court in London, and a sum of money after. I went along with them because, I suppose, in my own way I was just helping them out."
Since returning to the ring, Fury has fought six times and beat Deontay Wilder last month to become heavyweight world champion for a second time.
