LAS VEGAS (六月 26, 2017) – 兩分世界拳擊協會 (WBA) 世界冠軍 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 (權) 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, 他的父親, 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 哈薩克斯坦奧海, was scheduled to face Interim WBA champion yunier Dorticos (21-0, 20 科斯) in the April 29^日 main event of 總理拳擊冠軍 在FS1和福克斯Deportes進行, from Sam’s Town Live in Las Vegas.

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.

本月初, 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. 事實上, 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·列別捷夫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 進而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’ 促進者, 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 – 加布里埃爾坎皮略, 拜倫·米切爾, 威廉Joppy的 和 蒙特爾格里芬 – as well as world title challengers 埃皮法尼奧門多薩, Vlacheslav Uzelkov, 丹尼·聖地亞哥, 恩里克奧尼拉斯, 塔馬斯科瓦奇, 北京弗洛雷斯 和 初中賴特.

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