Devastating News...Flintoff likely forced to retire through injury

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Perhaps the dodgy shoulder was why he 'punched' like a retard?

No that will be never having had a single fight in his life before he made his Pro debut and having only trained for 4 months to get him there......I know lads who have been training 4 months before now and have never even sparred!!

You cant learn how to throw a punch in 4 months?
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We see the hillbilly boxer guy leaping around throwing punches like a cat and we all laugh but we're supposed to say well done Freddie Flintoff, you've made the ultimate in human sacrifice to become a boxer?

Flintoff is a privileged guy who got privileged treatment over the course of 4 months and at the end of it didnt know how to punch properly, thats a fact. Yes he showed the willingness to train hard and the willingness to get in the ring but thats it.

I did a driving experience day a while back around a race track after a couple of hours instruction. That makes me about as close to Sebastian Vettel as Flintoff is to Bernard Hopkins.

The one Thing Flintoff has never been is Priviliged, he rose to the top of Cricket coming from a Council Estate, the lad came from absolutely nothing, so to put Priviliged in any sentence with Freddie mentioned in it is stark raving Lunacy, the lad was still wearing hand me down clothes at 12!!

Flintoff demonstratted in the fight he was able to throw a punch and jabbed reasonably well, however he lost shape and became a little messy in his eagerness to put behind the knock down...he was over eager....and that's probably the one thing you can never train to combat in the ring, anyone that steps between the ropes wants to prove they have balls and they haven't he ring intelligence to slow things down and box like they have in training sessions....it's what novices do!!!

I've been around combat sports since I was a kid and to do what Flintoff did after such a short time of training is worthy of respect and certainly not derision....he is never going to make it Big, but he has done something that 99.9% of Internet keyboard warriors have never actually done.....props from me!!!

I never said I dont respect what he did. He worked hard and got himself into great shape for the fight, I give him his due for that.

Coming from a council estate and rising to become (at one point at least anyway) the biggest star in World cricket is what means he had a privilaged path into boxing. He didnt spend weeks, months training on the periphery looking doe eyed at the ring thinking one day I'll be able to get in there and spar....fight. His background meant that he could walk into 4 months of saturated one on one training with top quality trainers. Thats privileged. The result of which was he didnt know how to throw punch number 2.