McGuigan: 'I hope Andrew Flintoff retires'

Trainer Barry McGuigan has revealed that he hopes Andrew Flintoff does not want to fight again after he won his debut professional fight on Friday night.

Flintoff fought back from a second-round knockdown to defeat American Richard Dawson on points, but his 51-year-old coach does not believe that the former cricketer could reproduce the commitment he did for Friday's fight.

McGuigan told Sky Sports News: "I just hope he doesn't want to do it anymore because it was such a tough, difficult job to get him into that type of shape. He worked exceptionally hard but it was a real trial.

"But could we reproduce this, let's say for example if he wanted to go to America? I don't think we could."

It had been reported over the weekend that Flintoff could stage his next fight in Las Vegas.