Derry Matthews retired from boxing today.

Choi Tseveenpurev ruined him.

I agree that Choi ruined him, he looked quite a decent prospect at British level before that. If you keep on getting stopped though, its no good long term for his health. He may come back after a long rest but truthfully, he shouldnt really. I wish him all the best in his retirement, even though he is still only 26.

Never liked him, he got a robbery against Simpson and was a dirty bastard in that fight. I was so happy when Choi knocked 7 shades of out of him

Yeah if he had any fans outside Liverpool I think they all disappeared after watching his dirty fouling against Simpson, the fact that he got a shocker of a decision just added to that.

Agreed, I lost any desire to support the guy after that fight. However, I still felt a little sorry for him after Choi destroyed him so brutally.
What's happening with Choi? He went home because he couldn't get fights and I heard that he was back but I've not seen him.

I used to like Mathews, they showed some of his earlier fights on the bbc & I thought he looked quite good, he gave Foster Jr a bit of a tanking & things were looking good for him.

Choi signed on with Spencer Fearon who'd been having some good shows down south with Kresnik Qato (?) & they were both on a bill together not long ago, I heard Spencer on Bunce's radio show talking about both Qato & Choi being on the same bill & how great the support would be, that was a few months back & not heard anything more of him since.