Cancer stricken boxing legend's devastating update

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Australian boxing fable Billy Dib has opened up connected his ongoing crab battle, calling it "the hardest hostile I've faced".

Dib had country to region a tumor successful his tummy past month, but revealed that he's present been diagnosed with an assertive and uncommon signifier of non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer.

The erstwhile IBF and IBO ace featherweight champion posted to societal media connected Tuesday day to springiness his fans an update, saying the results from his country was "not what I was hoping for".

"I've had to excavation heavy galore times successful beingness earlier and with the grace of Allah (God), person got done the galore struggles earlier maine successful the past," helium wrote successful an Instagram post.

"Cancer volition beryllium the hardest hostile I've faced but I privation you to cognize that I'm warring harder than I ever person and God willing, I volition decision this atrocious disease."

The 37-year-old Kogarah autochthonal said the program was to statesman chemotherapy "as soon arsenic possible".

"While I cognize it's going to beryllium rough, I person to locomotion this travel arsenic truthful galore others bash each azygous time with the enactment of their wellness professionals, household and friends.

"In hard times, I cognize I'm not alone. I person Allah, my wife, son, family and each of you beside me. Your prayers, benignant words and enactment each assistance maine erstwhile I request inspiration.

"I cognize you volition recognize that I volition beryllium little progressive connected societal media to absorption connected this situation up of maine but delight cognize that your messages of enactment bash not spell unnoticed oregon unappreciated.

"I committedness to springiness this newest situation everything I have, with my beauteous family, I person excessively overmuch to unrecorded for to springiness immoderate little than 100 (per cent)."

Dib held the IBF featherweight rubric from 2011 to 2013, and the IBO super-featherweight rubric successful 2008.

He has won 48 retired of his 56 nonrecreational fights, with 27 of those wins coming via KO.

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