Australian boxer retires after being told he risks blindness (The Associated Press)
The Samoan-born Australian heavyweight boxer Alex Leapai has announced his retirement after being told he risked blindness if he continued to fight. Leapai was best-known for his 2014 fight against former world champion Wladimir Klitschko, when he was knocked out in the fifth round by the Ukraine boxer. A 36-year-old father of six, Leapai had surgery on both his eyes after the Klitschko fight and experienced more problems after his last bout, a unanimous-decision loss to Manuel Charr in Russia.