Ewan MacKenna: 'Amateur boxing may have destroyed itself last weekend'

Scruntiny has come on the AIBA following the election of Gafur Rakhimov president. (Photo by Stanislav Krasilnikov\TASS via Getty Images)

Ewan MacKenna

It's just over two years since Michael Conlan stood in a ring in Rio de Janeiro, and lost his mind having lost a fight.

"AIBA are cheats," he famously fumed. "F**king cheats. They're cheating bastards, they are paying everyone... They're known for being cheats and they'll always be cheats. Amateur boxing stinks from the core right to the top."