Boxing: Derek Chisora says he’ll retire after three more fights

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39 years old veteran boxer Derek Chisora has finally decided to listen to fans and his age and retire. But he explained the retirement is not going to be till he has had three more fights.

After his boxing trilogy with Tyson Fury, which ended with him losing, reports say he was expected to hang the gloves. The Brit has contested for the WBC Heavyweight title twice, with no good result.

The boxer has never won a world title. That does not mean he has never won championships. But it seems the time has come for him to leave the quest for belts to younger men.

In the recent fight with 41 years old out-of-form Gerrard Washington, his underperformance stood out beside his victory. That fight seemed to resound the call for his retirement.

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But this is what the fighter has to say, ‘Don’t worry about that, I’ll make something. I can say what I want to do but God will tell me not do this. So I’ll pray on it for a couple of weeks and see what God wants me to do exactly, but it’s not retirement yet. I’m not stopping, not yet. It’s not the time yet.

‘If I knew how to be a gardener I’d have been a gardener from day one, but I’m a fighter and this is what we know. You can’t decide to tell a fighter you have to stop fighting now because you’re going to be a gardener because we don’t know that crap!

‘From day one we’re fighting in the amateur game and then we go pro. This is what we know. We don’t know how to type on a computer or be a receptionist. We don’t know that.

‘We are fighters. Every fighter retires, and when they retire guess what they do? They go back in the gym and start training other fighters. Do you understand, I’m a fighter.

‘I’ll be honest with you. I’ve got three more fights and then I’m out. I want to get to 50.’

What remains to be seen is whom he would choose to fight with. But his loses has been getting bigger, lately.