Matthew Macklin (34-6, 22 KOs) has competed mostly as a middleweight. He currently holds something called the WBC International super welterweight title. He has won three straight and five of his last six since suffering a third round knockout at the hands of Gennady Golovkin.
Macklin would love a rematch with Felix Sturm. He lost a hotly disputed decision to Sturm in 2014 on Sturm's home turf in Germany. Sturm was then the WBA middleweight champion. But that match -- indeed, any future match for Macklin -- has been complicated by Friday's events in Dublin. It would be a risk for any promoter to use him because of the added expense of tighter security.
Macklin has never been convicted of a crime, but his associates are a hard-boiled lot. According to a piece by Ken Foy that ran in the June 6, 2014 issue of the Irish News, "members of the Christy Kinahan international crime syndicate and senior members of the (Irish) mob are regularly seen at his fights....the mobsters have used his fights in the past for crime summits."
The 58-year-old Christy Kinahan has been called the godfather of Irish crime lords. Macklin is friends with Daniel Kinahan, Christy Kinahan's eldest son, and was frequently seen in the company of the late Gary Hutch, a career criminal (purportedly turned stool pigeon) who was murdered in Costa del Sol, Spain, last year. A hired assassin pumped three bullets into Hutch at 11 am in the swimming pool area of an apartment in which he was staying. There's a school of thought that Friday's fatal shooting at the Dublin weigh-in was in retaliation for Hutch's murder.
Costa del Sol, with its pristine beaches, has long been a favorite haunt of aristocratic playboys and European gangsters. The MGM boxing gym there (the initials stand for Macklin Gym Mirabella) was ostensibly built with Kinahan money. In a previous incident near the gym, Macklin's trainer Jamie Moore was shot in both legs after leaving a party in a villa owned by Daniel Kinahan.
One thing seems certain: The next time that Matthew Macklin or one of his stablemates has a fight, the weigh-in will be held in secret or else under extremely tight security.
Macklin would love a rematch with Felix Sturm. He lost a hotly disputed decision to Sturm in 2014 on Sturm's home turf in Germany. Sturm was then the WBA middleweight champion. But that match -- indeed, any future match for Macklin -- has been complicated by Friday's events in Dublin. It would be a risk for any promoter to use him because of the added expense of tighter security.
Macklin has never been convicted of a crime, but his associates are a hard-boiled lot. According to a piece by Ken Foy that ran in the June 6, 2014 issue of the Irish News, "members of the Christy Kinahan international crime syndicate and senior members of the (Irish) mob are regularly seen at his fights....the mobsters have used his fights in the past for crime summits."
The 58-year-old Christy Kinahan has been called the godfather of Irish crime lords. Macklin is friends with Daniel Kinahan, Christy Kinahan's eldest son, and was frequently seen in the company of the late Gary Hutch, a career criminal (purportedly turned stool pigeon) who was murdered in Costa del Sol, Spain, last year. A hired assassin pumped three bullets into Hutch at 11 am in the swimming pool area of an apartment in which he was staying. There's a school of thought that Friday's fatal shooting at the Dublin weigh-in was in retaliation for Hutch's murder.
Costa del Sol, with its pristine beaches, has long been a favorite haunt of aristocratic playboys and European gangsters. The MGM boxing gym there (the initials stand for Macklin Gym Mirabella) was ostensibly built with Kinahan money. In a previous incident near the gym, Macklin's trainer Jamie Moore was shot in both legs after leaving a party in a villa owned by Daniel Kinahan.
One thing seems certain: The next time that Matthew Macklin or one of his stablemates has a fight, the weigh-in will be held in secret or else under extremely tight security.
What's next for Middleweight Matthew Macklin, the pet of Irish mobsters?
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