LAS VEGAS (六月 26, 2017) – 两分世界拳击协会 (WBA) 世界冠军 Shumenov北部 has relinquished his WBA cruiserweight world title, due to his career-ending eye injury, and he has announced his retirement from the ring.

“I have regrettably relinquished my WBA cruiserweight title and retired from boxing because of a traumatic eye injury suffered the week before my last scheduled fight,” Shumenov said from his Las Vegas home. “I’m extremely disappointed my boxing career has ended like this but, 可惜, injuries are part of this sport and there’s nothing I can do about it. I still have blurred vision and I need to have an additional surgery next month to try to further repair so I don’t risk blindness in my (权) 眼睛.

“I’d like to thank my family, my team throughout the years, friends and fans for their continued support all these years. I was proud to wear the WBA championship belt for many years as a two-division champion. I’m grateful to WBA President Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, 他的父亲, and all those in my WBA family. It was quite a ride and I look forward with great anticipation to the next chapter of my life with my son and future endeavors.”

Shumenov (17-2, 11 科斯), 一 2004 哈萨克斯坦奥海, was scheduled to face Interim WBA champion yunier Dorticos (21-0, 20 科斯) in the April 29^日 的主要事件 总理拳击冠军 在FS1和福克斯Deportes进行, 从山姆城直播在拉斯维加斯.

During his last slated sparring sessions, Shumenov suffered an eye injury that required immediate surgery, forcing him to withdraw from his 四月 29 fight against Dorticos.

Earlier this month, the WBA received a letter from Shumenov’s eye surgeon, 博士. Kent L. Wellish, who wrote the following: “先生. Beibut Shumenov has a serious ocular issue, a recurrent corneal erosion of his right eye, that with continued fighting, puts him at risk for permanently losing his eyesight.

“It is my medical opinion that he should permanently refrain from sparring, training and boxing due to the severity of damage to his eye and the high risk of further damage of vision impairment, including the possibility of permanent vision loss.”

The WBA accepted Shumenov’s relinquishment of his championship, noting that it expressed its gratitude and pride for his professional career with the WBA.

The last three years of Shumenov’s career was marred by inactivity, in which he fought only three times due to lack of managerial support, despite him training daily, in top shape and always being ready to fight. 事实上, he sparred almost 400 rounds since his last fight (五月 21, 2016) in anticipation of, 第一, a unification fight with 丹尼斯·列别捷夫and then for his fight versus Dorticos. Neither happened, 然而, as boxing politics enabled Lebedev to avoid fighting Shumenov, who defeated 北京弗洛雷斯 进而Junior Anthony Wright in back-to-back WBA elimination fights to be Lebedev’s mandatory challenger.

Even Shumenov’s mandatory fight against Dorticos was unnecessarily delayed because Dorticos’ 促进者, Caribe Promotions, defaulted its right to promote the fight it had won by purse bid, followed by continuous and numerous date changes from February to March until finally landing on 四月 29.

The 33-year-old Shumenov retires as the first and only two-division world champion to date from Kazakhstan, as well as the record-holder for fewest fights needed to win the world light heavyweight championship, 10.

During his 9 1/2 -year pro career, Shumenov defeated four world champions – 加布里埃尔坎皮略, 拜伦·米切尔, 威廉Joppy的 和 蒙特尔格里芬 – as well as world title challengers 埃皮法尼奥门多萨, Vlacheslav Uzelkov, 丹尼·圣地亚哥, 恩里克奥尼拉斯, 塔马斯科瓦奇, 北京弗洛雷斯 和 初中赖特.

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