I’m not the retiring type, says McCullough

WAYNE McCULLOUGH has rubbished talk of retirement and insisted he will fight on in search of another world title shot.

The Belfast 32-year-old was hospitalised following his comprehensive 12-round beating by Scott Harrison in a WBO featherweight title challenge in Glasgow in March. However, McCullough has no doubts that he still has what it takes to claim a second world crown to add to the WBC bantamweight belt he won in Japan eight years ago: “I will retire on my own terms, when I am good and ready. Right now I am concentrating on getting back into fight shape.

“The thought of retirement has never crossed by mind because, as soon as you start thinking about retirement, then you might as well do so. Many world champions have lost worse than I did and they have come back stronger, sometimes getting bigger purses along the way. No-one says they should retire.”