Your legacy or your wife? Dick Turpin had nothing on this when holding up a stagecoach.
Amir Khan looked up from his malicious trolling on social media and gazed wistfully at the Empire State Building from the window of his penthouse suite.
Poignantly, he was aware that his professional pride will not let him grant his wife's heartfelt wish that he retire from the violent game which so terrifies her that she watches his fights on television. Through her fingers.
Amir Khan has vowed to fight again in the future after his recent defeat to Terence Crawford
The 32-year-old was forced to withdraw from their fight in New York after a brutal low blow
'So she will have to keep on praying,' says Khan. As she did at the weekend.
Achingly, he wondered whether he should have lurched back out from that crippling low blow and taken on that suspect chin the inevitable knock-out from Terence Crawford. One so brutal that it would have reduced the mother of his children to tears.
At least that would have spared this natural-born warrior all the malignant allegations of being a quitter.
Finally, he concluded he could not let his two-time world championship career flounder to its end in such a trough of failure and despond.
'If I retired now I would be haunted by this fight forever,' he says.
So out of the darkness he looks for an alternative pathway to another, perhaps last, world title fight and says: 'I have to acknowledge that Terence Crawford is an exceptional champion. But there are other welterweight belt holders out there - Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter -- who I think I can handle more easily. And maybe Manny Pacquiao has come of the age now for our big fight in England.'
It is the midday morning after the midnight horror of the night before.
Mrs Faryal Khan, who is in another hotel across town with their infant daughters, wants it to be over. Her husband says: 'She hates what I do for a living. She spends my fights shielding her eyes and praying for my survival. She says its time. But boxing is what I do I best.
Despite his the fears of wife Faryal Makhdoom Khan, he wants to get back into the ring again
The couple were pictured on the rooftop of a New York skyscraper in the build-up to his fight
'It was one of my dreams to top the bill at Madison Square Garden but even after what's happened here I still love boxing. I still feel I have at least two fights left
