{"id":825562,"date":"2026-07-26T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:24:23","slug":"i-dont-remember-12-rounds-feeling-like-that-errol-spence-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825562\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t remember 12 rounds feeling like that\u2019: Errol Spence retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was Spence\u2019s first fight in three years, and he admitted afterward that it was hard for him to get through, but he was proud of making the distance one last time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dI\u2019m feeling alright. I\u2019m a little sore,\u201d Spence said in a backstage interview with DAZN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t remember 12 rounds feeling like that, like, that was a long 12 rounds. But I\u2019m happy I finished the 12-round fight (after) being off for a three-year layoff. It was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 36-year-old Spence retires with a pro record of 28-2 (22 KO), having been a unified welterweight world champion and one of the best and most successful fighters of his era. He has stressed that he wants to leave now, before his mental faculties deteriorate, and that he\u2019s in a good spot financially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI\u2019m going home with my family,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be like one of these other boxers that don\u2019t have any more faculties, just fighting just to make money and things like that. I\u2019m OK financially and I\u2019m fine, I can ride off into the sunset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt makes me feel good that I have this support, everybody\u2019s come to support me. My family told me that it\u2019s time to hang \u2018em up. I\u2019m glad we both agree on that. It\u2019s time to hang \u2018em up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Spence\u2019s first fight in three years, and he admitted afterward that it was hard for him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-825562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}