Joe Molloy

But life went on.

Kinnehan, after all, had not been convicted of any crime.

Fast forward, though, to April 2022, a seismic disaster.

turn of events in the Kinnehan story.

There was a press conference called, which certainly from a boxing point of view, put the matter to bed very quickly.

The US authorities had arrived in Dublin and speaking in City Hall, US Ambassador Claire Cronin said the following.

It was a stunning development involving Irish, American, British and European authorities.

The US officials told media that the Kinnahan cartel was now being prioritised by US law enforcement in the same way it had pursued the Italian Camorra mafia group.

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was in City Hall on the Irish side and again, a criminal story but sport very much being talked about.

The fallout was too much even for Bob Arum.

And Bob, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about all this stuff going on.

To echo some of the sentiments I see from journalists and from people online, you know, social media, their feeling is, why were you working with MTK Daniel Kinahan if it's known by a lot of people that he was a very questionable individual, you know, and things like that?

No, it's finished, finished, finished.

In so much as you can pinpoint a moment, it really was the beginning of the end for Kinahan and boxing.

That same month, April 22, was the press conference in Dublin.

Bob Yalen resigned as MTK CEO, and the next day, MTK folded.

Ten years on from its inception, the company was no more.

Indignant to the end, their statement cited, quote, unprecedented levels of unfair scrutiny and criticism.

Over in London a week later, Tyson Fury was doing press ahead of his fight at Wembley against Dillian White.

And naturally, he was asked if the FBI intervention marked the end of his relationship with Kinahan.