“AFTER a lot of thought and reflection the time has finally come to bring my career as a professional boxer to an end.”

A TEXT-BOOK left hook perfectly placed on the point of the chin signalled the end of Bernard Dunne’s six-month reign as WBA world super bantamweight champion and transferred the belt to Thailand thunderball, Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, before a stunned sell-out crowd at the O2 in Dublin’s Docklands on Saturday night.