![]() ![]() MTK Global has said that Kinahan ceased involvement with the company in 2017, the year that Fury signed on with MTK Global. Treasury Department or named in its April 11 release, announced on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations, citing the “unprecedented” and “unfair” scrutiny the company has faced following the U.S. MTK Global, which was not sanctioned by the U.S. “Criminal groups like the KOCG prey on the most vulnerable in society and bring drug-related crime and violence, including murder, to the countries in which they operate.”įury had been represented by MTK Global, a boxing management company started by Daniel Kinahan in 2012. “The Kinahan Organized Crime Group (KOCG) smuggles deadly narcotics, including cocaine, to Europe, and is a threat to the entire licit economy through its role in international money laundering,” Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. government is offering $5 million bounties for information leading to the arrest of Kinahan, his brother, and his father. (Kinahan has long denied any wrongdoing). Treasury Department announced sanctions against, among others, Daniel Kinahan, the purported head of an Irish organized crime group who founded a boxing management company that has worked with Fury. You can’t take your eyes off him.”įury enters the Whyte fight having to answer some uncomfortable questions. “But we haven’t had a performer in the heavyweight division as charismatic as Tyson Fury. ![]() “When you look at what’s happened since Ali, there have been a lot of very good fighters, great fighters,” says Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter. The rematch, in February 2020, was a pre-pandemic Las Vegas mega-event: Fury won on a 7th round technical knockout (TKO), reclaimed the belt and banked some $25 million. In 2018, Fury returned to challenge American Deontay Wilder for the heavyweight title. There will be times when you’re feeling good again.” “The sooner you get medical help, the quicker you can return to being well again. “The best thing anyone who’s suffering mental health problems can do is seek medical advice immediately,” says Fury. He vacated his titles, gained weight, and fell into a deep depression while having suicidal thoughts. Fury tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and took nearly three years off from boxing while dealing with alcoholism and recreational drug use. A rematch, however, would never materialize. Fury, who was named after Iron Mike, made his professional debut in 2008 and rose through the ranks to challenge Wladimir Klitschko for the heavyweight crown in 2015: he won that bout in a unanimous decision. But if this fight is indeed Fury’s last hurrah, he’ll heave behind an influential legacy, having helped revive boxing’s heavyweight division, which languished in the doldrums since the Muhammad Ali-Mike Tyson golden years. “You can never say never in life,” he says. But as far as I’m concerned, Dillian Whyte will be the final mountain to climb.”įury’s leaving the door slightly open for a return to the ring. There will always be promoters and people trying to get me to come back and fight because there’s always going to be fights available. And no amount of money or fame or glory could make me change me mind on that once my mind has been set. “I want it to be a final decision,” Fury says. Like so many before him Fury-a popular showman who’s entering this potential last fight facing unwanted inquiries about past ties to an alleged organized crime boss- insists this retirement announcement is for real. Floyd Mayweather said he was stepping away from boxing after his 2007 win over Oscar de la Hoya he fought a dozen more times afterward. George Foreman quit in 1977… then again in 1997, at age 48. Muhammad Ali retired, and unretired, a few times. Boxing, in particular, has a fraught relationship with the concept of walking away. Sports fans, however, are used to false retirements: see Brady, Tom. ![]()
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