(AFP via Getty Images) Organized crime controlled boxing in 1950sīoxing aficionados rival baseball fans in their worship of the past, convinced the athletes they see today can't measure up to the ones they remember from their youth. government is less a scandal than a throwback.īritish heavyweight Tyson Fury works out in London ahead of his fight with Dillian White at Wembley Stadium on April 23. So in some ways the news that a boxing benefactor with ties to the current heavyweight champion is being hunted by the U.S. Just fighters and managers and promoters angling to get the best of each other. Boxing is big business, but also a giant hustle, without teams, leagues or a central regulating authority. It's at least as big a story as all those times Tom Brady pretended to retire.īut boxing isn't any other pro sport, where the talent gets vetted and background-checked, and where money alone can't buy you a spot in a very exclusive ownership class. Imagine the feds targeting an investor in the defending Super Bowl champs, and announcing the sanctions on Wild Card Weekend. The Treasury Department's bounty on the Kinahan crew went public just 11 days before Fury is scheduled to defend his titles against Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium, and while it has led to headlines, it is not the seismic scandal it would be in any other pro sport. They have posed for photos together, waterside in Dubai. MTK worked with Tyson Fury, and the unified heavyweight champion appears tight with the group's boss, Daniel Kinahan. authorities are taking this case, which targets the group best known among law enforcement for funneling narcotics into Ireland.īut if you follow boxing, you might just as easily recognize the name Kinahan as the family behind MGM boxing, later branded as MTK Global, the promotional outfit that guided dozens of pro fighters until it folded this week, citing an exodus of business partners after the U.S. The dollar figure tells you how seriously U.S. Treasury Department announced a $5-million US reward for information that would lead to the "financial destruction" of the Kinahan crime gang, or to the arrest and conviction of the Irish syndicate's leaders. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ. This is a column by Morgan Campbell, who writes opinion for CBC Sports.
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