The shame that lingers

@MattCBoxingNews

YOU might say it was the last thing that boxing needed, a mobster with a $5m bounty on his head threatening to overshadow a world heavyweight title fight, but it’s exactly what it deserved.

We were warned, you see. Not once but several times. We were warned in 2016 when a shooting took place at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin. Warned again when Tyson Fury made it clear that his agent was Daniel Kinahan, an alleged target at that shooting and a man at the very top of a cartel linked to numerous drug crimes. Warned again and again and again by crime journalists in Ireland, and even by the High Court, who made it clear what kind of man we were dealing with. No matter, said those who had fallen under his spell. Even a documentary, aired on the BBC in 2021,