{"id":631075,"date":"2026-06-10T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631075\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:49:10","slug":"george-groves-says-big-name-uk-fighter-should-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631075\/","title":{"rendered":"George Groves Says Big Name UK Fighter Should Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Groves<\/a> has suggested it is now time for one of British boxing\u2019s biggest stars to hang up the gloves for good.<\/p>\n

Groves is a former world champion who shot to fame more than a decade ago when he was involved in two of the biggest fights British boxing had seen for some time.<\/p>\n

Both were fights with his supermiddleweight rival Carl Froch, and both ended in stoppage losses for \u2018The Saint\u2019,<\/a> though many believe the first fight was ended much too prematurely.<\/p>\n

After that, he rebuilt and eventually won a world title by stopping Fedor Chudinov in 2015 before going on to fight and beat Jamie Cox and Chris Eubank Jr in defence of his WBA title.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Boxing UK<\/a> about Eubank Jr, he suggested he should walk away from the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris Eubank Jr apparently, is coming back. That guy, he\u2019s the opposite of Fury; he should be retiring, rather than time and time again retiring and then coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Groves\u2019 last fight was the final of the World Boxing Super Series and ended with a seventh-round stoppage loss to Callum Smith. At that point, he hung up his gloves, having struggled to get fit for the final following a dislocated shoulder in the previous fight with Eubank.<\/p>\n

Last time out, Eubank Jr was beaten on points by long-time rival Conor Benn. He was put down twice early in the fight, and many believe he was weight-drained after competing below his natural weight twice in order to make the fights with Benn.<\/p>\n

Since then, he has become a father to twins but has vowed to make a ring return later this year. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Groves has suggested it is now time for one of British boxing\u2019s biggest stars to hang up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631075","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=631075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}