Comments Thread For: Klitschko: Even $20 Million Could Not Change Mind on Retirement

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When Wladimir Klitschko recently announced his retirement from the sport, it caught a lot of people by surprise. Many had expected Klitschko to at least go forward with a planned rematch against WBA, IBO, IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Back in April before a crowd of 90,000 at Wembley, the two fighters engaged in one of the best heavyweight contests in recent memory. Klitschko survived a
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[alexjust]

For $20mil AJ can knock me out in any fashion he wants. Hell, I'll knock myself out for $20mil.

[Gunpowdergreg]

Try a $100 million+ for MMA HW Champion Stipe Miocic, sound far fetched so did Mayweather/McG 2 years ago. $100 mil might interest Vlad. Just kidding! I hope August 26th is the last EVENT ever.

[A.K]

He wants to protect his health he got hurt in the last fight and would get hurt again, too old to be taking punishment like that smart move.

[HarvardBlue]

That's a commendable move by Klitschko. It's good to see a boxer value principles over money.

I can't believe I'm actually starting to like and respect Klitschko.

[Bronx2245]

SALUTE! No one wants to see Wlad looking like Holmes did vs. Tyson, or Ali did vs. Holmes, or B-Hop did vs. Smith Jr., etc. I applaud his career, and the fact that Wlad knew when to say when!

[whatismyname]

Smart move by the former champ. He handed over the torch and left with his glory

[Boxing lives]

Smart move by the former champ. He handed over the torch and left with his glory

Great pass the torch challenge. He got his head uppercutted into the third row, but he kept his dignity.

[Brutus1]

I think this is a callback to when Lennox wanted 20 million to come out of retirement.

[Eff Pandas]

That whole thing was weird with Hearn having to go out & scout a fight to come to all the $ figures just for Klitschko to see & turn down lol. Idk if Klitschko wanted more time to decide if he even wanted to fight again or if it'd had been $40M then he woulda fought one more time or what, but that whole thing was weird to me.