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JORDAN GILL did not owe us the admission he made on Saturday night after he had just stopped Michael Conlan in Belfast. He did not need to admit that he had dragged himself back from the brink, that in June he was going to take his own life, but in a moment of staggering honesty he did just that. When interviewed by DAZN in the ring after his win, he said: “After the [Kiko] Martinez loss, I lost touch with myself. I broke up with my wife. On 30 June

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