Lee Selby announces retirement following 27-year career
The Welshman held the IBF planet featherweight title concerning 2015 and 2018.
Former IBF entire world featherweight champion Lee Selby (28-4, 9 KOs) has known as time on a 27-yr extensive boxing career.
In a assertion unveiled on Twitter, Selby looked back again on his profession and thanked those who manufactured him into the person he is today.
Following 27 years of boxing it’s time to hold up the gloves.
Welsh, Celtic, British, Commonwealth, European & IBF Planet Champion.
I exit the ring with no regrets, content, healthful and my family members monetarily safe.
Thank you for all your aid. https://t.co/7sgcokQZYZ pic.twitter.com/0BKXCkIf4a
— lee selby (@leeselby126) April 5, 2022
Selby liked a good deal of accomplishment all through his occupation, beginning off with profitable titles in his indigenous Wales to profitable the IBF environment featherweight title in May perhaps 2015 when he was dominated the winner via TD towards Evgeny Gradovich just after the Russian suffered a cut following an accidental headclash.
Selby went on to make 5 thriving defences of his IBF belt right before losing to Josh Warrington at Elland Highway in 2018.
The Welshman continued to keep himself in the earth title image and even fought the now unified globe lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr in a world title eliminator in 2020.
On the other hand, the remaining battle of his vocation was a distinct signal that it was time for Selby to contact it a day. He was stopped in spherical 5 by Argentina’s Gustavo Daniel Lemos immediately after remaining knocked down after in the fourth and two times in the fifth.
When it was not the ideal way to bow out of boxing, Selby has made himself a element of boxing history by becoming the 12th male from Wales to gain a planet title.