‘Golden Boy’ Michael Conlan must start all over again

Michael Conlan has shed domestic celebrity to start from scratch Stateside in the unforgiving pro game, a game he wants to put back centre stage when he eventually returns home...

To a cacophony of howls and gasps from an audience of 3,500 fight fans at Dublin’s Citywest Hotel, Willie ‘Big Bang’ Casey slumped into referee Stanley Christodolou’s arms.

Defiled. Dejected. Defeated.