BRAVE OGOGO RISKING HIS SIGHT FOR WORLD-TITLE SHOT

ANTHONY OGOGO has had SIX eye operations, remortgaged his house and been told to quit.

But the Lowestoft fighter is not ready to throw the towel in on his dream to be a world champion.

In fact, it is his belief that he can one day win a world title that is driving him on.

“I’m doing this because I know I can still reach the top,” he said.

Ogogo (left) will celebrate his 30th birthday in two days, but it has been two years since he stepped into the ring.

That night was a disaster as his left eye socket “exploded” and his trainer Tony Sims was forced to withdraw him in the eighth round of a middleweight clash against Craig Cunningham.

It was the first professional defeat for the London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist in a 12-fight career plagued by shoulder and Achilles injuries. “My eyes were like a car, with one headlight up and one headlight down, but one was also twisted because it was getting bashed,” said Ogogo.

“I got a forearm in the eye and my eye socket exploded. I had numerous fractures in the eye socket after the fight.

“The eye is the most sensitive part in the body, the muscles that move the eye are like cling-film and, once they are damaged, they can’t repair themselves.” Many felt for the boxer as he poured his heart out on social media last week when the painkillers wore off, after his sixth eye operation in Boston.

“There have been six operations, and a lot of complications,” he said. “This last operation is it, the last muscle that can be operated on.”

He will wait for his eyes to heal before he can assess the results, with the hope he can satisfy the British Boxing Board of Control.