A demoralised Teresa Perozzi denies she has retired as she broke her silence to hit back at her estranged promoter who she blames for preparing her badly for the seven-belt defeat by Natascha Ragosina earlier this year.

Perozzi is looking for a fight in Bermuda as she laughed off claims by Seconds To Go Boxing president George Cuozzo that he will not release her from a three-year contract and will demand a fee from all of her fights for the next three years.

Perozzi is adamant that she is done with Cuozzo who recently attacked the fighter in The Royal Gazette, saying he will not even consider activating a get-out clause in Perozzi's deal until she publicly apologises for "unsubstantiated" accusations levelled at him in the aftermath of the Ragosina defeat.

She told the Mid-Ocean News: "It's done - I have done with him. There are a hundred reasons I can go into about how he misrepresented me.

"He has no case to stand on. I have been told that. He couldn't do anything overseas. I don't want to fight in the US or Europe at the moment. Unless it's here I don't want to do it. It's too much of a sacrifice.

"It was worth it before but now I have too much going on between my business and my son so I can't give up that time, especially to get screwed over.

"Every time there is some type of controversy, you can't get a decision or you feel like you have been set up. It takes away from what you are doing it for.

"I have not retired as he has said. At the moment I don't want to fight overseas at the moment.

"I have had an offer I just turned down in Atlanta in August ¿ the money was terrible."

Perozzi, whose fighting weight is 160 pounds, said: "It was a higher weight class ¿ 168 pounds ¿ a lot of the super middle weights are trying to call me out. It is just not my weight class.

"If there was something happening in Bermuda I would be very interested. But I have just lost a lot of motivation ¿ this George really took a lot out of me ¿ my desire and motivation.

"I have been doing it on my own for eight years, then to finally find a manager I thought I could trust. He was a good talker and just didn't come through.

"It is unfortunate he didn't listen to me about what I said I needed. He felt he knew was best. He changed everything on me including my trainer. It was a big mistake.

"It is not about the money but I would have made more doing it on my own than dealing with him because he's just trying to get a war going on, it's not going to happen. But the money just isn't there for women's boxing.

"I don't do it for the money, I never did. You can count on one hand the girls with their own promoters or managers. You can tell who they are because they never fight out of their home countries.

"Other than that, people just do it because they love it, it is very difficult to make money off of it. As a side thing you do all right - especially as you get paid double in Europe than you do in the States ¿ there are fewer women boxers so the ones they have, they promote well.

"They can make the women the main event, in the States they can't ¿ unless it's Laila Ali ¿ you never see a woman main event. But in the Europe there are very few cards going on."

Pressed on the problems which led to the March defeat in Germany by Russian powerhouse Ragosina, who won all three bouts, Perozzi said there were a lot of problems with her training.

She had wanted a disciplined, physical routine to push her to the limit.

"I always bring Rick Sweeney, from Albany, but George convinced me that he wasn't right ¿ that I needed someone who trained world champions.

"George is very slick and I agreed to switching. But I never should have because I always do very well with Rick.