Daniel Kinahan

MTK Global, the boxing management company founded by the alleged Irish gangster Daniel Kinahan, has ceased operations.

Thank you to all the fans who have supported us over the last decade.” Our priority in the weeks ahead will be to ensure that our world class boxers are supported to find new partnerships as swiftly as possible. Further announcements will be made in due course.

The company, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012.

"It is a matter of public record that Mr Kinahan's involvement in MTK ceased in 2017, and despite repeated reassurances in this regard, unfounded allegations about his ongoing association with us and our fighters persist," the firm said. MTK Global, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012. The company, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012.

The boxing company, which had listed star names in the sport including Tyson Fury, Josh Taylor and Billy Joe Saunders among its stable of more than 200 fighters ...

“Since leading promoters have now informed us that they will be severing all ties with MTK and will no longer work with our fighters, we have taken the difficult decision to cease operations at the end of this month. Daniel Kinahan was described as the man who “is believed to run the day-to-day operations of the organisation” and was hit with sanctions by the US Government. A statement released on Wednesday read: “As a business we have faced unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism since the sanctioning by the US Government of Daniel Joseph Kinahan.

The company made their statement at the same time Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte were addressing the media before their world title fight.

In my life, I’ve got a man who wants to punch my face in next week and I’ve got to deal with that. I keep my own business to myself, that’s it. Our priority in the weeks ahead will be to ensure that our world class boxers are supported to find new partnerships as swiftly as possible.

MTK Global, the boxing promotions company founded by Daniel Kinahan in 2012, has ceased operations.

The statement from MTK reads: “As a business we have faced unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism since the sanctioning by the US government of Daniel Joseph Kinahan." “As a business we have faced unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism since the sanctioning by the US government of Daniel Joseph Kinahan,” it says In a statement issued this afternoon the company said it had taken the difficult decision due to “unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism”.

Promoters and boxers are disavowing Daniel Kinahan, whom the Treasury Department said is the leader of a murderous drug cartel.

Arum said Top Rank would not do any business with Kinahan in the future. Mauricio Sulaimán, the head of the World Boxing Council sanctioning organization, was photographed with Kinahan in Dubai earlier this year. But Conlan said in a statement that he has been represented by his brother, Jamie, for the past year, and had never heard of Hoopoe. The Treasury Department announced financial sanctions against Kinahan, and a number of related people and businesses, last week. Asked about it after, Lazzez called Kinahan “a friend and adviser,” before professing to be unaware of the sanctions against Kinahan. MTK Global has repeatedly said that it ended all association with Kinahan in 2017.

The company, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012.

"It is a matter of public record that Mr Kinahan's involvement in MTK ceased in 2017, and despite repeated reassurances in this regard, unfounded allegations about his ongoing association with us and our fighters persist," the firm said. MTK Global, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012. The company, which had previously listed boxers including Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders among its fighters, was co-founded by Kinahan in 2012.