Boxing and the mob

[erics44]

im gonna watch it when i get the chance

[TonnnnUK]

Just got round to watching this myself. I knew pretty much all the things covered in the documentary but it was excellent and very eye opening. I was impressed with McGuigan appearing in it as well and not being coy about how dangerous they are.

It is pretty damning on the sport and those involved, top level promoters who clearly know about the background of Kinahan (it's all out there being reported over years in the media), yet will turn a blind eye for the sake of making money. But as already alluded to in this thread, boxing has never really had much integrity when it comes to morals.

It's also quite surprising to see a poster on here never even heard of Kinahan. Presumably members on this forum are somewhat more than just casual boxing observers and are more ingrained in the sport. So the fact his name escapes some within the boxing circles I guess does show that he is indeed not prominent from the outside looking in.

[TonnnnUK]

Seems that the Irish authorities have given warnings to the team behind the documentary.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55956375

[smashup]

It's not the Irish authorities but a "criminal gang" who are said to have made threats to the BBC.


Kinahan has released.this statement this morning.

SPEAKING OUT - Daniel Kinahan: Full statement released to talkSPORT from controversial boxing adviser after Panorama investigation

https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/831036/

[TonnnnUK]

So do we think this has been damaging to the sport? Not sure it really makes much difference.
While he continues to evade any kind of capture or convictions for gang related crimes, he will continue in his role as "advisor" to the boxers who seem to worship him.
Things will just continue as they have done for the last several years.

[Master]

So do we think this has been damaging to the sport? Not sure it really makes much difference.
While he continues to evade any kind of capture or convictions for gang related crimes, he will continue in his role as "advisor" to the boxers who seem to worship him.
Things will just continue as they have done for the last several years.

BJS is crying he has lost money because of his association with this man.

[smashup]

So do we think this has been damaging to the sport? Not sure it really makes much difference.
While he continues to evade any kind of capture or convictions for gang related crimes, he will continue in his role as "advisor" to the boxers who seem to worship him.
Things will just continue as they have done for the last several years.

He's had involvement for years now and has probably helped (in some way) to give us some big fights that we maybe wouldn't have seen.
All he's doing is simply rinsing his dirty Money from his billions of drug money through the sport of boxing.
It's genius really 😉

[erics44]

Still havent watched it, im gonna put a reminder in my phone for Sunday evening

[TonnnnUK]

So do we think this has been damaging to the sport? Not sure it really makes much difference.
While he continues to evade any kind of capture or convictions for gang related crimes, he will continue in his role as "advisor" to the boxers who seem to worship him.
Things will just continue as they have done for the last several years.

He's had involvement for years now and has probably helped (in some way) to give us some big fights that we maybe wouldn't have seen.
All he's doing is simply rinsing his dirty Money from his billions of drug money through the sport of boxing.
It's genius really 😉

It's been known he's been around the sport by us sorts of fans who delve deeper into the sport than just the general sports fans. But this was a prime time, widely watched documentary on the BBC "exposing" his involvement in the sport and his close proximity to major boxers, key players and big fight events.

It might prompt authorities within the UK, Ireland and US to kick into action possibly? The exposure could be something of an embarrassment maybe? The Irish authorities have essentially said they know he is in charge of a huge drug cartel in Europe but have no means to prosecute him for any crimes.....

[Kirkland Laing]

So do we think this has been damaging to the sport? Not sure it really makes much difference.
While he continues to evade any kind of capture or convictions for gang related crimes, he will continue in his role as "advisor" to the boxers who seem to worship him.
Things will just continue as they have done for the last several years.

He's had involvement for years now and has probably helped (in some way) to give us some big fights that we maybe wouldn't have seen.
All he's doing is simply rinsing his dirty Money from his billions of drug money through the sport of boxing.
It's genius really ������

That's not how money laundering works. You don't launder money in a massively public business where the sales numbers are easily checkable by the authorities and every last penny is accounted for by multiple lawyers and so on. Boxing brings in pennies compared to the drug business. How are you going to launder hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Claim Wembley has a million seats? Sky are not going to have any part in anything crooked with PPV buys nor would it be possible with the layers of accountants and the transparency of their subscription system, same with Ticketmaster. This bloke is doing this because it's a hobby and he thinks he's invincible as far as legal consequences are concerned. And he's probably right. If he stays in Dubai he'll probably avoid the inevitable outcome for guys like this which is being knocked off by some rival, he seems to be aware of exactly how he is vincible.