Kash out
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KASH FAROOQ, one of the brightest young talents in British boxing, has been left with no choice but to retire from the sport at the age of just 26. The former British bantamweight champion made the decision after his annual medical with the British Boxing Board of Control highlighted a change in his brain.
“There was a slight change in the scan and then further testing was carried out afterwards,” Iain Wilson, Farooq’s manager,. “We had a few different opinions and looked at it but his safety and health was paramount. There was no way I was going to let him continue. Who knows, he might have been able to go away and sort things out. But it’s too risky and too dangerous. He’s like family to me.”
