Retiring Stoke-on-Trent boxer Nathan Heaney has thanked his “very special” fans for their superb send-off at his final bout, saying his followers have “made” the best nights of his career.
The 37-year-old, a former British middleweight champion, lost on points to Welshman Gerome Warburton in Birmingham on Saturday.
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He told BBC Radio Stoke: “The pressure I put on myself in the build-up thinking I had to win the fight, because if I don’t I’ve ruined everything – that’s the mentality I had going in.
“I knew it was close but in the end, when I’d officially lost, I looked out and there was a wall of 2,000 Stokies – probably more – and…
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