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Rio Ferdinand Set To Start Professional Boxing Career by emekauzor(op): 4:38pm On Sep 19, 2017
Former Manchester United star defender Rio Ferdinand, is set to be a professional boxer, the retired England captain; Ferdinand, who is hoping to get his British Boxing Board of Control licence with the help of bookmaker Betfair.

“Boxing is an amazing sport for the mind and the body. I have always had a passion for it and this challenge is the perfect opportunity to show people what’s possible. It’s a challenge I’m not taking lightly, clearly not everyone can become a professional boxer, but with the team of experts Betfair are putting together and the drive I have to succeed, anything is possible.” He was quoted as saying.

Ferdinand in the past has been posting on his Instagram page

He said his gym work replicated the “release time” football had provided him until he left the game, adding that “until you start working out regularly, you don’t understand it. You don’t understand that sometimes that hour, or even that brief 20 minutes you snatch as and when, can be the most chilled out hour or 20 minutes of your day”.

“Without the gym,” Ferdinand said, “I don’t know where I would’ve had that release time – that time just to think about nothing, or to think about something other than what was going on in my life.”

Ferdinand spoke of the beneficial effect that working out had on his mental health.

He said: “I’m simply happier when I’m in the gym and working out, and I think everything else flows better when I’m doing that. It invigorates me and calms me at the same time.”


http://www.ezeuzoma.com/2017/09/19/official-rio-ferdinand-announces-becoming-professional-boxer/

Re: Rio Ferdinand Set To Start Professional Boxing Career by mexxmoney: 4:40pm On Sep 19, 2017
You just dey find who go spoil this your fine face for you
Re: Rio Ferdinand Set To Start Professional Boxing Career by mikejj(m): 4:42pm On Sep 19, 2017
grin we dey wait,u never jamb ojuelegba boys.
Re: Rio Ferdinand Set To Start Professional Boxing Career by Skillfullulu(m): 5:07pm On Sep 19, 2017
Boxing ring ain't no football pitch bro, somebody tell this guy.
It's an advert definitely.
Re: Rio Ferdinand Set To Start Professional Boxing Career by Martinez19(m): 5:10pm On Sep 19, 2017
Think of what Messi did to you, multiple it times ten. That is what is coming for you.
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