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Originally Posted by Locke

Why?

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As well as declaring he missed the “competitive edge” football had given him since retirement, Ferdinand said part of his motivation for stepping into the ring had been his ongoing grief at losing wife Rebecca Ellison to cancer two years ago.

“It’s something for me to focus on after the last couple of years,” he said. “I’ve been through quite a few things in my life and this is a way of trying to channel that aggression, that anger sometimes, into something I can be really focused on.”

Ellison’s death left Ferdinand a single father to three children, who he indicated were supportive of his potentially-risky new venture.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/20...n-fight-title/