Michael Conlan pulls no punches at ‘AIBA cheats’

Amateur boxing stinks. AIBA, its international governing body, are cheats. The Olympic boxing tournament is a shambles.

Michael Conlan was not pulling any punches yesterday. After three international five-star judges booted him out of the Olympic Games, he hit them with every cuss and claim that came to hand.

Whether it is true or not, and whether there is any substance to Conlan’s angry assertions, they have gone around the world now from the Olympic Games in Rio and the reputation of the noble art fought to the rules laid down by an English aristocrat is dragged again into the gutter.