Tyson Fury was reportedly denied entry into the United States of America due to his alleged relationship with Daniel Kinahan.
According to the Sunday World, the WBC heavyweight champion was stopped by US immigration officials as he attempted to board a flight from the UK.
It is unknown when the alleged incident occurred. Fury posted a ringside video on social media on Friday night while watching his cousin, British heavyweight Nathan Gorman, fight in Liverpool.
The news comes after US Treasury sanctioned boxing adviser Kinahan, naming him as a key figure in the Kinahan Organized Crime Group (KOCG).
In April, American officials held a press conference in Dublin alongside their Irish counterparts, at which Irishman Kinahan was one of seven KOCG members sanctioned for involvement in a criminal enterprise.
Officials have also announced a $5 million (£3.84 million) reward for ‘information leading to the financial disruption of the Kinahan Criminal Organization, or the arrest and/or conviction of’ the three Kinahans.
Fury is the most well-known fighter with alleged ties to Kinahan.
After agreeing to a two-fight deal with fellow British boxer Anthony Joshua, the WBC heavyweight champion took to social media in 2020 to give the Irishman a “big shout-out.”
Although the fight was never held due to Deontay Wilder’s arbitration victory, an agreement was reached, and Kinahan clearly played a significant role in completing the biggest fight in British history.
Kinahan co-founded management firm MTK Global in 2012, but later publicly stepped down after a string of negative publicity in Ireland. In 2017, co-founder Matthew Macklin sold the company to Sandra Vaughan.
Despite this, Kinahan continued to advise many fighters, and at the start of 2020, several big names in the sport began to speak out in glowing terms about their interactions with him.
Fury was photographed with Kinahan in February, but he later distanced himself from the Irishman ahead of his retirement fight against Dillian Whyte in April at Wembley.
“What a man does in his own business is none of my concern, I am a boxing man, I don’t get involved in anyone’s business at all,” he told Sky Sports.
“I don’t care what you’ve done, I’m only concerned in what I do, and I don’t do anything apart from box. End of.”
On the photograph of their pair in Dubai in February, Fury also said: “Because I had my picture taken with a man it doesn’t make me a criminal.”
