Joshua Clottey has revealed to sportscrusaderonline.com that he will most certainly quit boxing in 2018.

Clottey 36, will fight his Australian opponent Anthony Mundine in the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Australia on April 9th 2014 for the IBF welterweight world championship.

The Ghanaian boxer is insisting that he will quit the boxing profession in four years from now when he is 40.

“I can’t continue to fight forever. A time will come that my body cannot take the punches anymore and I will have to retire”.

“For me that will be when I get to 40 years. This means 4 years from now. But before then I have to keep on fighting to make sure I win a World title before I eventually announce my retirement” he stressed.

Clottey rose to prominence by winning his first twenty fights, including 14 by knockout. His performance set him up to fight Carlos Baldomir, in a title defense by Baldomir for the WBC international welterweight title.

Clottey lost by disqualification in a controversial fight. Clottey was winning until the 10th round, where he was penalized two points for an intentional head butt.

. He was warned for this but did it again resulting in the referee stopping the fight and disqualifying Clottey. The bouts' controversy is over the fact that the referees' decision to disqualify Clottey was far too premature.