Niall Donald
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But it's, yeah, he's still, look, he's nearly 70 years old, of course, as well.
This is the other matter.
Yeah and look, Daniel Kinnan certainly ended up in Dubai and he sort of went public and he perceived that combat sports, boxing in particular, was a way for him to move past his criminal activities and to become a sort of legitimate businessman with a hint of danger I suppose.
Now obviously then the sanctions ultimately put an end to it publicly and we know that Daniel Kinnan certainly had to step away from all of that world.
But we've constantly been told, haven't we ever since, that he maintains some sort of hand in it from his base in Dubai.
Now, he certainly has a much, much lower profile within the boxing world.
I mean, where he was really at the very pinnacle of the world sport, the sport across the world.
But we continue to hear that, you know, his break hasn't been as absolute as has been let known.
So it's interesting to see them both at this event.
The event was called the 971 Fighting Championship and it was in Dubai's Coca-Cola Arena in June 2025.
It was on for six hours, which is really, really long.
There was a number of international fights, MMA bouts.
And you just do wonder when you look at Daniel still floating around there, still hanging around with, certainly hanging around with Mr. Lazez.
is he left that fight game all total.
Well, I mean, I think there has to be a factor, which I've said before, but it definitely has to be true.
This is in Bellingcat.
Bellingcat are sort of a unique organisation, journalistic, sort of investigative journalism organisation.
organization.