Michael Conlan on Boxing Future: I’ll Take My Time Before I Decide To Do Anything

Irish Olympian Michael Conlan will take the right time to find out his future within the sport.

This previous Saturday evening in Belfast, Conlan was knocked out in 5 rounds by IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez on the SSE Area.

It was Conlan’s second try at a world title.

Final yr, he was knocked out within the twelfth spherical by WBA featherweight champion Leigh Wooden.

Conlan, together with coach Adam Sales space, had comprised a sport plan to outbox Lopez.

However when the combat started, Conlan got here out very aggressive and took the combat to the champion.

He believes that fast aggressive tempo was the downfall of the combat.

“Look how I began: aggressive, and when do I begin aggressive? That was nothing to do with Lopez, was myself and the way I approached issues,” Conlan instructed Belfast Media.

“I do not know why, however all right down to me and the errors I initially made inside these first few seconds. That was in the end the downfall.”

At 31-years-old, Conlan nonetheless has some profitable choices – like a rematch with Wooden or a showdown with Josh Warrington.

His older brother, Jamie Conlan, retired across the identical age in 2017 – after a failed world title try.

Presently, Conlan is planning to mull over his subsequent transfer.

I’ve some choices to make. I am simply going to go away, take my time earlier than I determine to do something. Ought to I combat, end or no matter I’ve obtained to consider that and have an actual sincere dialog with myself and my staff,” Conlan mentioned.

“It has been a protracted one [my career in boxing]. Lengthy sufficient and I have not reached the extent {of professional} boxing I imagine my skill might have. Some folks’s path to world titles are tougher than others. Timing and the whole lot else comes into the equation, however sadly it hasn’t performed out how I needed it to, however there’s nonetheless time if I determine to remain on – not a great deal of time however time – but it surely’s nonetheless a dialog I have to have with myself and my staff.”