Last week the BBC aired a special investigation titled ‘Boxing and the Mob’. That programme discussed MTK Global, a boxing promoter and management company that represents Tyson Fury, Carl Frampton, Michael Conlan and Billy Joe Saunders among many other boxers. MTK also has an MMA division, which includes among its roster UFC fighters Darren Till, Mounir Lazzez, Su Mudaerrji, Dusko Todorovic and Talia Santos.
MTK was founded by Daniel Kinahan, a man who Irish media, politicians and courts, accuse of being a crime boss in charge of an entity known as the Kinahan Organised Crime Group. The KOCG is accused of being Ireland’s largest narcotic traffickers with operations in Europe, North Africa and Oceania.