By Jason Kim: After suffering a one-sided 10 round unanimous decision loss to unbeaten middleweight contender Peter Quillin last night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, 40-year-old Ronald “Winky” Wright (51-6-1, 25 KO’s) has reportedly retired from boxing.

Wright said on his twitter account “It was fun while it lasted. I did what I set out to do and that was to be great. Part of being a good boxer is knowing when to call it quits. If I can’t be the champion again there’s no need to keep boxing. But I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for always supporting me.”

Wright made a mistake in coming back after three years of inactivity without a tune-up bout or two before facing Quillin. That was a huge mistake that was just asking for trouble. It just wasn’t smart for Wright to come back after all that time and take on one of the best fighters in the middleweight division. Granted, Quillin is very flawed, but he’s still a top 6 or 7 middleweight in the division. Wright made a huge blunder in deciding to take this fight without at least one tune-up. Ideally, he needed at least three tune-ups before taking on someone like Quillin.

Look at Kelly Pavlik. He’s only 29 and missed a year of action and he’s taking tune-up after tune-up before he eventually faces someone good. With Wright, he needed even more tune-ups because before the last time he fought back in 2009, Wright had already been out of boxing for two years. In other words, Wright came into the fight with Quillin having fought only once in the past five years. That was not a good thing for Wright to do. It’s like taking a math quiz without having studied the subject in years and expecting to do well.

I’m sorry but you don’t beat a fighter like Quillin having fought only once in the past five years. Besides that, Wright was fighting out of his old weight class of 154 by moving up to fight Quillin. This guy Quillin was fighting at super middleweight because he’s so huge, and after it became painfully obvious that he likely wouldn’t do much of anything at that weight because of all the talented fighters up there, he moved down to middleweight to try his hand. So he’s a really big middleweight who is more of a super middleweight. Wright shouldn’t have been fighting this guy at that weight. Wright was just asking for trouble.