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Wayne McCullough has vowed to fight on.
The former WBC bantamweight champion insists he is not ready to hang up the gloves despite a one-sided defeat last time out against Oscar Larios, when was stopped after brutal 10 rounds.
That was McCullough's second loss to WBC super-bantam titlist Larios in the space of six months and his sixth successive loss in world title attempts.
But the Pocket Rocket, who has since been appointed an ambassador for the WBC, has told skysports.com that hanging up the gloves could not be further from his thoughts.
"I haven't even thought about retiring since my last fight," he said in his weekly column on Skysports.com.
"Other people have me retired or have at least tried to put those words into my mouth but I intend to fight on.
"I am also trying to get another big fight scheduled in the very near future."
McCullough, 35, and now based in the Las Vegas, has never been put down in 33 fights, which have included 27 wins and those six defeats, all in world title fights.
He suffered at the hands of Larios twice, Erik Morales, Daniel Zaragoza and fellow Brits Naseem Hamed and Scott Harrison.
But before that he blew onto the bantamweight scene with 20 straight wins, including a split decision over Japan's Yasuei Yakushiji in July 1995, which gave him the WBC belt.
It's guys like Wayne & Evander Holyfield who need to be protected from themselves, I don't want to see Wayne end up like poor Leavander Johnson, McCullough's wife is his manager I believe so if she's got any brains she should refuse to have anything to do with a comeback and that might make him realise, you'd think what happened to Johnson would make them think twice cos McCullough has a daughter as well and this is only boxing after all, hardly worth dying for.
The former WBC bantamweight champion insists he is not ready to hang up the gloves despite a one-sided defeat last time out against Oscar Larios, when was stopped after brutal 10 rounds.
That was McCullough's second loss to WBC super-bantam titlist Larios in the space of six months and his sixth successive loss in world title attempts.
But the Pocket Rocket, who has since been appointed an ambassador for the WBC, has told skysports.com that hanging up the gloves could not be further from his thoughts.
"I haven't even thought about retiring since my last fight," he said in his weekly column on Skysports.com.
"Other people have me retired or have at least tried to put those words into my mouth but I intend to fight on.
"I am also trying to get another big fight scheduled in the very near future."
McCullough, 35, and now based in the Las Vegas, has never been put down in 33 fights, which have included 27 wins and those six defeats, all in world title fights.
He suffered at the hands of Larios twice, Erik Morales, Daniel Zaragoza and fellow Brits Naseem Hamed and Scott Harrison.
But before that he blew onto the bantamweight scene with 20 straight wins, including a split decision over Japan's Yasuei Yakushiji in July 1995, which gave him the WBC belt.
It's guys like Wayne & Evander Holyfield who need to be protected from themselves, I don't want to see Wayne end up like poor Leavander Johnson, McCullough's wife is his manager I believe so if she's got any brains she should refuse to have anything to do with a comeback and that might make him realise, you'd think what happened to Johnson would make them think twice cos McCullough has a daughter as well and this is only boxing after all, hardly worth dying for.
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