Former world boxing champion Nigel Benn has called off his bid to make a comebac...
FILE PHOTO: Boxing - Nigel Benn Press Conference - The Steelyard, London, Britain - September 26, 2019 Nigel Benn poses after the press conference Action Images/John Sibley
The 55-year-old had said in September he would fight Cameroon-born Australian Sakio Bika, 40, a former world champion, in Birmingham on Nov. 23. “With a heavy heart I am sad to say I had to make the hard decision today to hang up my boxing gloves,” Benn said in a post on Instagram. Benn held the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and the WBC super-middleweight title from 1992-96. He lost his last professional fight to Irishman Steve Collins in November 1996.
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