Leonard Gunning on the business of sports promotion ahead of Ireland's biggest pro boxing event

Leonard Gunning is promoting an event that, in terms of the number of fights, is the biggest professional boxing show in Irish history. He tells Pádraig Hoare about the business of sports promotion

If passion and love for the game was all it took for a professional boxing event to be a commercial success, Sligo native Leonard Gunning would be a millionaire many times over.

Mr Gunning, a chartered surveyor based in London, has tried to walk away from his obsession but, to paraphrase The Godfather’s Michael Corleone, just when he thought he was out, it pulled him back in.