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I have a tear in my patellar tendon. I will find out if I need surgery to repair it.

It was clear there was something wrong with my leg in the second round but we didn’t know the extent at that time.

Yes the injury is serious, but I want to apologize to all of you that I let down.

I had a ton of support going over there and I feel as though I let a lot of you down.

I promise you, I will keep my weight down and I WILL be back!

Even though this injury has set me back, I feel good and will keep the weight off.

And to some of the comments I’ve seen and heard after the fight…

Man, you trying to write me off? I’m not going anywhere!

I was a one-legged fighter from the second on. I couldn’t plant, throw power shots, I couldn’t do nothing.

Every time I threw a right hand I felt like I was going to fall on my face.

I just have to go back to the drawing board and see where we go from here…

After watching the Haye/Klitschko fight I have decided to focus more on my boxing career. The only reason that my team and I accepted the MMA fight against Ken Shamrock is that the fighters rated in the top ten or twenty don’t want to fight me. I will not bow down to the politics of boxing. I’ve got 82 professional fights. I still love to fight and I’m in the gym every day. No one can show me where I was beat-up in a fight. Those writing negative comments about me can kiss my a_ _! People talk about how I look, but I can fight. I don’t run from my opponent’s. People run their mouths about my weight, but if you check my weight for the heavyweight division it’s about the same except for my last fight. It’s like my Pops said, “The day I get my ass beat, it’s time to stop fighting”.

That fight on Saturday was ridiculous. Nobody wanted to engage in physical contact. At some point in time I will take an MMA fight, but right now I’ve got a mission to accomplish. I will defend my World Championship IBA belt and I am gunning for the WBA,WBC,WBO and IBF belts as well. I’m not going anywhere.