Neeson Quit Boxing After Scary Beat Down

LIAM NEESON quit boxing as a talented young amateur when one fighter literally rang his bell after beating him.

The Irishman was well on his way to becoming a professional as a young man when one defeat made him realise he wasn’t cut out to be a fighter.

He recalls, “I didn’t get knocked out, but I was beat and I came out of the ring and my father was with me and he said, ‘OK son, go and get changed,’ and I looked at him and I thought, ‘Changed… What’s he talking about?’

“It was very scary and it lasted about 10 minutes. I literally didn’t know if I was a human being, and I thought, ‘That’s it’.”

But his boxing legend lives on - Neeson’s The A-Team co-star, UFC fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, was well aware of the actor’s prowess in the ring.

Jackson says, “My boxing trainer is from Liverpool; he’s an Irishman, Mark Kenny, and he told me he used to watch him… He said he was bad; he was a bada**.”