{"id":550266,"date":"2026-03-21T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:14:10","slug":"michael-conlan-retires-at-34-after-loss-to-kevin-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550266\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan retires at 34 after loss to Kevin Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Two-time Olympian and former title challenger Michael Conlan is hanging up the gloves after dropping a split decision to Kevin Walsh in Belfast earlier today. The Belfast Telegraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/its-the-end-of-the-road-for-me-emotional-michael-conlan-confirms-retirement-after-shock-loss-to-kevin-walsh\/a\/143774527.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">presents his comments in full<\/a>, including his disappointment at never claiming a championship belt and his desire to spend more time in his family\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That defeat would prove the beginning of the end for Conlan\u2019s professional run. An IBF title shot against Luis Alberto Lopez turned into a five-round mauling, after which he suffered another stoppage loss to the light-punching Jordan Gill. He\u2019s fought just three times in the 2.5 years since, culminating in today\u2019s ultra-thin defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I respect Conlan for acknowledging that, though he thought he deserved the win, he had no chance of winning a world title if he couldn\u2019t comfortably beat this level of opposition. As he puts it, he reached \u201csome serious highs\u201d and gets out with his health intact. May the road rise to meet you, Mick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Olympian and former title challenger Michael Conlan is hanging up the gloves after dropping a split decision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-550266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}