Melissa Oddessa Retires From Boxing

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    IBO Bantamweight Champion Mellissa Oddessa is fed up with boxing and it’s bullshit politics and backstabbing. So much so that she has decided to walk away from the sport when there is so much more she has left to give. While she can give the sport and the people within it are sitting back and not allowing her to do so and holding her contract hostage.

    Oddessa has had five fights in less than a year and has won the IBO bantamweight Championship in that time as well as earning a spot in the top ten in the world of her division.

    “You want to know why I’m not in the boxing mix? Why I cant take any fights,” stated Oddessa via Instagram.

    “Ask Gary Lewis head of Signature Punch Promotions promotions who refuses to release me from my exclusive promotional contract. I believed in this man and his lies. This man’s business practice is not always ethical and I will not do further business with a lying manipulative and toxic promoter like Gary Lewis and his tantrum throwing wife Jody. I still haven’t received my full agreed upon pay from my June 19th fight. Nelson Lopez Jr posted that he signed me as a manager but never did. I went along to get burned. Check BoxRec.”

    “I will not be fighting for or representing signature punch promotions. I’m not going to spend my savings on an attorney and legal fees so I stop here.”

    “With that said, I am officially retiring and moving on from boxing. Boxing goes on with or without me. No point if I can’t stay busy. It hurts to have fallen back in love with something I’m so passionate about to have to walk away.”

    It’s a shame that such a talent will no longer do what they love and hopefully she comes back under way, way better circumstances.