Boxing: Injury could end Flintoff’s career

Former cricketer Flintoff, who won his debut fight as a professional boxer, has a torn shoulder ligament.

Andrew Flintoff has suffered a serious shoulder injury would could signal a premature end to his recently begun boxing career, according to ESPN. Former cricketer Flintoff, who won his debut fight as a professional boxer against Richard Dawson last month, has a torn shoulder ligament which will require surgery. This has raised doubt on his prospects of a second career fight. “The injury to his shoulder will be taken into account but at this stage we are ruling nothing in and nothing out,” said a spokesman for Flintoff. “It is a nasty one but he has had a lot nastier during his life. We will just wait and see and report back in the New Year and see where we go. There are certainly leads to chase.”

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2012.