Comments Thread For: Lightweight Contender Kevin Mitchell Announces Retirement

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Tributes to his bravery flew out today after Kevin Mitchell, 31, announced his retirement from boxing.

He retires with a 39-4 (29) record and held the British and Commonwealth Super featherweight belts during his time in the sport. The world title proved elusive, though, as he lost to Michael Katsidis, Ricky Burns, Jorge Linares and Ismail Barroso when going for the WBO (interim versus Katsidis), WBC and WBA interim lightweight titles respectively.
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[PittyPat]

Got to see him fight live 3 times and he put on a great show each time, win or lose. It's likely the right choice to retire, after 2 failed world shots and getting knocked out more brutally each time. Regardless, cheers Kev. :box2:

[paulf]

Fun fighter that put it all out there. Good luck in retirement!

[HughJass]

This man has giving me some great memories and was a true fighting warrior.Enjoy your retirement Kev lad,you deserve it m8.

[paulf]

Damn shame we didn't get a Linares rematch, but he gave us enough good ones.

[Mick Higgs]

Kev could of actually stayed & won a Lonsdale belt out-right to hang on his pie & mash shop. Hopefully he stays in the game as a trainer. "Good Luck to a true warrior"!

[Wicky]

Sensible choice... At his best he was a very entertaining fighter with sharp spiteful punches, but he lost the edge and in interviews started to sound like his speech is slurred. He should really have quit when he lost to Burns because even though his latter performances were goods efforts, he was clearly never make it to the top.

[KeyboardWarrior]

His right with Linares was a war

[Wicky]

His right with Linares was a war

It was, and he was competitive... up to a point. But the work that Linares did on Mitchell's face eventually took it's toll. People say that fight was more competitive than it was in reality. A fighter needs a complete game – both offence & defence. You can't win if you can't make it to the finish line and Mitchell only had offence that night.

[Corelone]

Kev could of actually stayed & won a Lonsdale belt out-right to hang on his pie & mash shop. Hopefully he stays in the game as a trainer. "Good Luck to a true warrior"!

I give him a much better chance of beating Tetli than those last two, but he knows himself best. It's hard to hang around when the top is out of reach. Pie and mash? No sip?