Lee McAllister Retired

Today my brother Lee announced he will be retiring from boxing, Lee has finally taken the advice from specialists that have warned him for the past few years that he could seriously damage his future health if he continues to put his body through the strains of being a professional fighter.

I know Lee gets bad press because he has the biggest mouth in boxing and made outrageous statements but no worse than other fighters have done in the past, but nobody can deny what he has done for boxing in Aberdeen. Before Lee turned professional there hadn't been pro boxing here in at least 20 years. In Aberdeen he will be remembered for bringing great nights back to the city in a time when the football team was doing absolutely nothing!!

Others will only remember Lee for being stopped by John Murray and Denis Shafikov, but people don't realise the the pain that Lee went through on a daily basis to try achieve his goals in boxing. After his accident 9 years ago Lee has had to constantly train whilst managing pain by using painkillers and injections whilst having daily physio sessions with the medical team at Aberdeen football club.

Lee has achieved more than most thought by winning 2 Commonwealth belts and imo if he hadn't had the accident he could have been a serious contender at euro level but in truth his body couldn't handle all the aspects of training needed to compete at the highest level. We tried lots of different types of training to substitute what he was missing it didn't help and the injuries kept coming.

Lee like any other fighter would fight anyone anytime and I've seen him get stick for the opponents he has faced but at the end of the day lee just boxed whoever was put in front of him and left the rest to his promoters.

Boxing is thriving in Aberdeen again and i'm hoping that life after Lee will still be good with my other brother Matty and Darren Traynor ready to carry on the good work he has done and bring big fights and great nights to the boxing fans in Aberdeen.

 

Cheers mate

 

Cheers mate

 

Cheers mate

 

When Lee was 21 he was involved in a motorbike accident in Greece, he suffered horrendous injuries including a broken jaw, fractured cheekbone, major internal injuries that resulted in him losing his spleen, most of his muscles around his right knee were damaged and the injury that did him the most harm was damage to his vertebral column.

2 of his vertebrae were damaged and this wasn't picked up until years after when the damage was too bad to fix without him never being able to box again, Lee decided he wanted to carry on for as long as possible so he could achieve as much as he possibly could out of his boxing career.