As the rounds went on, Tszyu took control<\/a> and, despite a gutsy effort from Spence in the eleventh, took a wide unanimous decision on the cards.<\/p>\nPost-fight, Spence congratulated the Aussie and his new coach, Jeff Fenech.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good fight. Congratulations to Tim, Jeff Fenech. Shout out to everybody who came out. It\u2019s been a great event \u2013 everybody treated me well. No Limit [Boxing] treated myself and my family real good, too. I appreciate everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a good showing from Tim. I answered a lot of questions for myself. Now it\u2019s time to go home with my family and start a new life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if this was the end of the road as a fighter, Spence said yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, for sure, man. I got my faculties intact. My money is good, it\u2019s working for itself. Everything\u2019s good, man. I got a beautiful family. I thank God that I\u2019m leaving this sport with my faculties intact and my family still by my side. Everything\u2019s gonna go well \u2026 This has been a great journey for myself \u2013 it\u2019s time to live family life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement was met with applause from the Sydney crowd, bringing an end to a career that spanned almost 14 years in the professional ranks and an impressive amateur campaign of 135 wins against just 12 defeats.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Truth\u2019 \u2013 who previously returned to the sport after a near-fatal car crash \u2013 retires with a professional record of 28-2 (22 KOs), having established himself as one of the finest welterweights of his era. A former unified world champion, victories over Kell Brook, Shawn Porter and Yordenis Ug\u00e1s for three of the four major titles at 147lbs ensured his place among the standout American fighters of his generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Errol Spence Jr has announced his retirement following his comeback defeat against Tim Tszyu. Spence travelled to Sydney,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711618","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\/711618","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=711618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}