Former WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Mikkel Kessler has announced that the eye injury that forced him to withdraw from the Showtime Super-Six Tournament doesn’t seem to showing signs of recovery.
Kessler pulled out of the Super-Six after complaining of double vision and doctors have told him to expect to be out for up to a year or risk a permanent injury to his eye.
“It is still the same. There is no improvement yet. I don’t spar. I do not train hard. I am not in doubt that it will be better. The only question is, when it is going to happen?” said the 31 year-old.
“People always say to me “What if you get hit and it starts up again?” “What if you go blind, is it worth it?” and I say “No, its not,” He explained.
The WBC have given Kessler a special status as the “Champion Emeritus” which allows him to box for the title as soon as he is fit enough to do so.
If he eyes doesn’t improve to the Dane’s liking though, he may never box again.