Conlan teamed up with Kalle and Nisse Sauerland’s Wasserman Boxing – since rebranded MF Pro – for his return to the sport last year after taking a 15-month hiatus in the wake of the Gill defeat.<\/p>\n
Sauerland applauded Conlan’s decision to make a low-key return against Asad Asif Khan on the undercard of Harlem Eubank v Tyrone McKenna in Brighton last March.<\/p>\n
“When you sign him, the first thing you think, is it Belfast, Dublin or New York?<\/p>\n
“He said he didn’t want to be main event and will take less money to be a co-feature to take the pressure off with a new trainer. That’s when you realise as a promoter you’re dealing with someone who knows what he’s doing.<\/p>\n
“That’s exactly what he needed, he got the rust off and wanted to be out there away from the limelight to do his thing with Grant [Smith] in his corner.<\/p>\n
“He turned down money to do that so it tells me he’s not just in this for a quick buck at the end of his career but wants that world title.”<\/p>\n
Sauerland has been a long-time admirer of Conlan and was delighted to capture the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist’s signature in 2025.<\/p>\n
Conlan retains a high profile despite falling short in world title bids against Leigh Wood in 2022 and Luis Alberto Lopez the following year and his promoter feels it “is a mystery” he hasn’t added a professional world title to his 2015 world amateur gold medal.<\/p>\n
“I’ve followed him for a long time and this chapter for him is the most important one – every fight is massive,” he stressed.<\/p>\n
“When you think he hasn’t won a world title, it doesn’t feel real.<\/p>\n
“He’s got all the skills, is from a boxing family, got robbed of the [2016 Olympics] gold medal so we know how good a fighter he is. <\/p>\n
“He’s come within 90 seconds of a world title [against Wood] but how he hasn’t become a world champion is a mystery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conlan teamed up with Kalle and Nisse Sauerland’s Wasserman Boxing – since rebranded MF Pro – for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-544219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}