Shawn Porter has decided to call it a career at the age of 34. The Ohio native announced his decision at the end of the fight with Terence Crawford.

Shawn Porter lost by TKO when his father and trainer, Kenny Porter, put a stop to the fight in the tenth round. Win or lose though, Porter was ready to hang up the gloves regardless.

“I’m prepared to retire. I was prepared to announce my retirement tonight — win, lose, or draw,” Shawn Porter said at the post-fight press conference. “Even if it was a draw we had a date they were telling us we were gonna have to do it again. I was not gonna do it again. And I am announcing my retirement right now.”

It was not the first time Shawn Porter flirted with retirement. Back in 2020, the boxer had said he only wanted to return for one big fight. That big fight was indeed Terence Crawford.

“We were in a room, about to (work) Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder 3 (as commentators). Someone comes up to him with all the talk about Ward (fighting) Canelo, and they said, ‘C’mon, champ, you know you got one more left in me.’ And (Ward) says, ‘Why can’t I just have one more left in me?’ The guy was confused. Meanwhile, I’m, like, ‘You said it all right there.’ Why do I have to continue? Why can’t I just ‘have one more in me’ and save it?

“A lot of times, the way this sport has gone, you guys expect us to fight for 15, 20 years. You say, ‘We hope he leaves this game with his health,’ but you never really know. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in some really big fights against some really good guys and always have my health at the end of the night. I knew that Errol Spence Jr was gonna be my last fight, I knew that in 2017, I think it was, when he won his championship. I said he would be the last one I fought, and after we fought, I felt like there was something else.

“Something else was Terence Crawford. I’ve given this sport a great deal, from the training to the competition, and more training. After you’ve fought everybody at the top, what more do you do? I’m not gonna be a gatekeeper. You look at the four losses and assume he could be a gatekeeper — nah, that’s not the life I want to live. I’ve never wanted to live the life of a fighter that fought into his 40s. We wanted to end this when I was 30. I’m 34, now’s the time.”

Shawn Porter has had a great career in boxing and walked away at the right time. His decision to not be a gatekeeper is a good one and something many fighters struggle with in their career.