Sam Ah-See retires, opens up about his professional boxing career and abrupt decision to draw curtains

Matt Findlay
Updated January 8 2020 - 2:57pm, first published April 22 2017 - 8:30am
A look at Sam Ah-See's professional boxing career in photos

For more than a decade, in fact virtually his whole life, boxing was everything Orange-born southpaw Sam Ah-See knew.

Seemingly a world champion-in-waiting, from the outside he always seemed invincible and his career looked like it was only going one way - up, and quickly.

Then Ah-See sent shockwaves through the community, abruptly announcing his retirement from the sport just weeks before a shot at an Australasian title.

Why?

Ah-See’s story is filled with physical, mental, emotional and financial battles.

It’s a tale riddled with insecurity, tragedy, manipulation, dazzling highs and debilitating lows, so much of which came behind closed doors where there was no gloves, no crowd, no ring.

But it’s also one that ends with a revelation, a decision he thinks can have a positive impact on the boxing and wider communities, particularly the Indigenous community.

Together with Australian Community Media's Matt Findlay, Ah-See candidly and exclusively tells his story.

CURTAIN CALL: Sam Ah-See called time on his glittering professional career abruptly, but he was waging a battle well-beyond the ring. Photo: MICHELLE COOK
CURTAIN CALL: Sam Ah-See called time on his glittering professional career abruptly, but he was waging a battle well-beyond the ring. Photo: MICHELLE COOK

As a fighter Sam Ah-See was everything you'd expect him to be, but so much more at the same time.

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Matt Findlay

Matt Findlay

Journalist

Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.

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