Over the years in which controversy has swirled over MTK Global and their relationship to their co-founder Daniel Kinahan—a man Irish courts have named as leader of a $1 billion drug trafficking empire—few have been as outspoken in their support for Kinahan as WBO super-middleweight champion (and MTK client) Billy Joe Saunders.
Despite Irish tabloids and politicians labelling Kinahan as a brutal crime lord, whose forces are engaged in a bloody gang war that has killed at least 18 people, Saunders has released statement after statement celebrating Kinahan’s work in the world of boxing.