Mounir Lazzez

UFC cleans house - Conor McGregor teammate gets the axe
Five fighters appear to have been released from the UFC roster this week, including a longtime teammate of Conor McGregor.

UFC fighter shouts out Daniel Kinahan on ESPN: Here’s what you need to know about the alleged mob boss
Last night at UFC Vegas 51 UAE-based fighter Mounir Lazzez beat Ange Loosa. In his post-fight interview with Daniel Cormier, Lazzez thanked Daniel Kinahan, calling him his “brother”. Here’s exactly what Lazzez said. “I would love to thank my coaches and my brother Daniel Kinahan, without him I would never be the man who I […]

Probellum claims it will cut off communication with suspected mob boss Daniel Kinahan
World boxing was rocked this week when the US government sanctioned Daniel Kinahan and offered a $5 million reward for information that leads to his arrest. In their announcement the US government named Kinahan as a leader of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group; an organization believed to be Ireland’s biggest trafficker of illegal drugs. The […]

US sanctions Daniel Kinahan, offers $5 million reward for ‘disruption’ of Kinahan Cartel
Daniel Kinahan, founder of MTK Global and close advisor to Tyson Fury, Darren Till and a slew of other boxers and mixed martial artists, has been sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The US Government has named Kinahan among the leaders of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group […]

UFC’s Darren Till poses with alleged mob boss Daniel Kinahan, again
Today UFC headliner Darren Till uploaded a picture of himself smiling with one arm draped over Daniel Kinahan. The tweet included the caption, “Good stroll on the beach tonight in Dubai with one of me good pals.” This isn’t the first time Till has posed next to Kinahan in the Middle East. Courts in Ireland […]

Gerry Hutch arrested in Spain over shooting that occurred at Kinahan run boxing show
Last week Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was arrested in Spain’s Costa del Sol after a Europe-wide Interpol warrant called for his capture in relation to the 2016 Regency Hotel Shooting (per Irish Times). That attack targeted a boxing weigh-in show in Dublin that resulted in the death of David Byrne, an alleged top lieutenant in […]

Former youth boxing champion gets 20 years for attempted murder linked to Hutch-Kinahan feud
According to RTE Caolan Smyth was handed a 20 year sentence for his role in the shooting of James Gately, which occurred on May 10, 2017. Gately was shot five times at a petrol station near Dublin Airport. Gately survived the shooting thanks to a bulletproof vest he was wearing, which absorbed four of the […]

‘He’s a great advisor’; MTK ‘s Josh Taylor defends suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan
Recently the BBC aired an investigative piece titled ‘Boxing and the Mob’, which examined the ties between the sport of boxing and Daniel Kinahan; a man who is accused by Irish courts, politicians and media of controlling a $1 billion drug empire. In response to this Kinahan, who is thought to reside in Dubai, released […]