After two consecutive losses and having not competed for nearly two years, popular slugger Marcos Maidana officially announced his retirement from boxing Tuesday afternoon on his official Facebook page.
Maidana, one of Argentina’s greatest boxers, took on some of the greatest of his generation and captured the WBA super lightweight title along the way. After coming up short twice for the belt (via decision to Andriy Kotelnik in 2009 and then to Amir Khan the following year), he finally won his gold by edging Mexican legend Erik Morales over 12 rounds to nab the interim title, which eventually became the regular WBA belt.