With a long string of victories .. that's out on a victory to me ... there are stories he retired rather than a last fight I think w Cal ... is there any truth to that ?
Yeah, I cant recall exact figures, but I recall him saying post retirement, something along the lines of he wasnt going from fighting Eubank and Benn for a couple of £million to his mandatory, Calzaghe for a couple of £hundred grand.
Sure, it’s just that the thread title was ‘a great win’ Collins’ last fight was against a lower level guy called Craig Cummings. Before Collins signed to fight Joe, he was issuing statements saying that Joe was just a prospect, and that he could only get motivated for a huge fight against Roy Jones. But he then signed to fight Joe, but withdrew just 11 days before the fight. He says that he was injured and that the doctor advised him to withdraw. But I’m really not sure. He then tried a comeback in 1999, where he was to fight on the undercard of Joe’s fight against Ricky Thornberry. But after suffering issues in training, he retired permanently due to his doctors advice. So his career did end on a win, but it didn’t end in the way that he’d intended it to.
Ricardo Lopez went out with a dominant performance against a much younger and pretty solid Zolani Tete.
