Two-time European champions Conrad Cummings has been forced to call time on his boxing career, just weeks short of his planned comeback.
The Tyrone man revealed on his social media accounts that he was "fine but I will not be risking my health" with a comeback fight scheduled in for November 13.
Cummings won the WBO European middleweight title in 2017 and 2018 and had 17 wins, four defeats and one draw in his professional career.
"I am officially walking away from fighting, happy, healthy, and I am calling it a day, thank you all," said the 30-year-old.
“It is with a very heavy heart I have to make this announcement that my boxing career inside of the ring is over.
"I have just finished my training camp for my 23rd professional fight, I’m in the best shape I’ve been in years and I’m ready to go
"However, after my medical report was examined, one more fight could potentially be too many," he explained.
“Boxing has taken me all over the world, from the streets of Coalisland to the bright lights of the Barclay Center Brooklyn New-York!
"I am heartbroken but looking back to where it all started for myself as a chubby nine-year-old boy at the Clonoe amateur boxing club, to Holy Trinity Belfast lifting five Irish Titles through both clubs, to living in Dublin with the Irish High performance team boxing team, travelling around the world and winning International Gold medals at numerous tournaments, travelling the world with the World Series Of Boxing and the Mexico Guerreros, before finally turning professional back in 2014.
"Then living/training in London, Manchester, Belfast and my final stop of Carrickfergus. It has been unbelievable. I’ve dreamed of the life I lived.”
