Comments Thread For: Former Footballer Rio Ferdinand Refused BBBofC Licence

[siablo14]

Damn. I wanted to see it.

Anyone has sparring vids of Rio?

[Madison Boxing]

Andre Ward will be announcing his comeback soon!

he was probably trying to line him up as an opponent lol

[Chrismart]

"It is with a heavy heart that I am hanging up my gloves

Ok Sugar Ray.

[GlassJoey]

Probably got caught for PEDs

He’s got history of missing a drugs test.

[b00g13man]

Rio Ferdinand retires from boxing before stepping into the ring as the ex-footballer is denied a boxing licence.

— Only Full Fights (@OnlyFullFights)

[The plunger man]

Right thing to do, at 39 you have to wonder just how much good he would do for the sport and god forbid if he suffered a tragic accident and severly injured or a death. The sport would never recover from it so they have done a good thing.
Boxing is not sport you can mess around with and with ferdinand at 39 just thinking he can compete with pro boxers when he has competed all his adult life as a paid footballer is kind of disrepectful as well.
Now go do whitecollar if he wants to box

[stealthradon]

Even she took more punches than Rio....

— SamRose (@samrose96)

[epyh]

Guy is a lunatic.
BBC made him a service.

[Scopedog]

I suppose I can’t complain that this sideshow was stopped before it could begin but it kind of sounds like he was turned down arbitrarily without even getting to do the tests. Symptomatic of UK officials’ tendency to just act arbitrarily when the alternative is inconvenient for them.

[nycsmooth]

It was the proper thing 2 do...the guy had no dkill...