diff --git a/python-urllib3.spec b/python-urllib3.spec
index 28e9c5b..de3fbf6 100644
--- a/python-urllib3.spec
+++ b/python-urllib3.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 %global srcname urllib3
 
-# When bootstrapping Python, we cannot test this yet
-%bcond_without tests
+# Tests are disabled to remove the test dependencies
+# Specify --with tests to run the tests on e.g. EPEL
+%bcond_with tests
 
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
 Version:        1.25.10
-Release:        4%{?dist}
+Release:        5%{?dist}
 Summary:        Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling and file post
 
 License:        MIT
@@ -116,6 +117,9 @@ popd
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar 08 2021 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 1.25.10-5
+- Disable tests on RHEL9 to remove the python-tornado dependency
+
 * Wed Jan 27 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.25.10-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild