loss to Chris Eubank Jr<\/a> that ended his career \u2013 a memory that still gnaws at him.<\/p>\n“The way I went out against Eubank, it plays in my head every day,” he says. “I want to go out with a good win and show people how injured I was.”<\/p>\n
DeGale knows his decision will raise eyebrows but believes attention and redemption could pave the way back to traditional boxing.<\/p>\n
“The last couple of years of my career I was riddled with injuries,” he tells BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“I need to right the wrong and have a couple more fights just to show how handicapped I was.”<\/p>\n
Although world titles are behind him, DeGale feels the modern boxing landscape – shaped by crossover shows and influencer bouts – offers new opportunities.<\/p>\n
“Boxing at the very top and winning world titles again, that’s done,” he says. <\/p>\n
“But boxing has changed. There’s [YouTuber KSI’s promotional company] Misfits, shows in Qatar, money everywhere.<\/p>\n
“Jake Paul, Darren Till, Ty Mitchell, KSI, Tommy Fury \u2013 there are so many people I can fight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many fighters, the hardest battle is not in the ring but knowing when to walk away. History…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}