Richard Reynolds (born 15 February 1948) is a former English professional footballer (soccer player) whose career ran from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
 Born in Looe Reynolds won three England Youth caps whilst with his first club Plymouth Argyle, for whom he made his debut in an F.A.Cup tie against Derby County early in 1965.
 In all Reynolds was to make over 100 appearances for The Pilgrims (and had a loan spell at Yeovil)before moving to Portsmouth in the 1971 close season.
 He was to prove such a popular player that in 1972 he was awarded the title of Pompey’s Player of the Year.
 Other strikers came and went during a turbulent era at the club but Reynolds played on until the disastrous relegation season of 1975/76- his last game being in a 3-1 win at Blackburn Rovers in February 1976.
 Reynolds left Portsmouth after a Football League Tribunal in which Reynolds was awarded a substantial amount of compensation for derogatory wages paid to him.
 The tribunal also instructed Portsmouth F.C. to release Reynolds from his contract as they couldn't pay him.
 He has never received the payment owing to him.
 Reynolds left Portsmouth in February 1976 to sign for the Dutch Eerie Division side F.C. Haarlem.
 Reynolds career was cut short by a serious knee injury sustained playing against Ajax Amsterdam.
 He later had spells as player-manager of non-league Chichester City (three-times), Petersfield, Fareham Town, Wick (twice) and Newport (IOW).
Nick Blackwell (born 27 October 1990) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2009 to 2016.
 He won the English middleweight title in 2010, at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest boxer to do so.
 In 2011 and 2012 he challenged for the Commonwealth middleweight title, and won the British middleweight title in 2015.
 Blackwell's career was cut short in 2016 after he was forced to retire due to a serious head injury sustained in the ring.
Matthew Patrick "Matt" Remillard (born June 12, 1986) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2011.
 He won the regional NABF featherweight title in 2009, together with the WBO–NABO featherweight title in 2010.
 Both titles were lost to Mikey Garcia in 2011, which was Remillard's first loss and ultimately his final fight.
 His career was cut short by legal troubles stemming from an incident in 2010, where he was involved in the beating of a 22-year-old man with an aluminum baseball bat.
 Remillard pleaded no contest and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Michael "Mike" Terrizzi is a retired football player who played quarterback for the Purdue University football team and was later signed by the San Francisco 49ers before his playing career was cut short by injury.
 He is a current attorney with the law firm of Plastiras & Terrizzi located in San Rafael, California.
 As quarterback for Purdue during the 1974 football season, he led the Boilermakers to a 31-20 victory over archrival Notre Dame at Notre Dame's stadium in South Bend, Indiana.
 Following this victory, Purdue did not defeat Notre Dame at Notre Dame for 30 years until 2004, when Kyle Orton led the Boilermakers to a 41-16 victory in South Bend.
 Nicknamed "Dorothy," he is not as well known as fellow Purdue quarterbacks with Bob Griese, Drew Brees and Kyle Orton.
 After graduation, he was signed by the San Francisco 49ers although his professional football career was cut short not long thereafter by an injury.
Bonner Bolton (born June 1, 1987 in Odessa, Texas) is a Championship Bull Riding (CBR) 2007 World Champion professional bull rider and fashion model.
 Bolton competed in the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Built Ford Tough Series (BFTS), the elite tour of the organization.
 He placed fourth in the PBR World Finals in 2015.
 He performed as a stunt double for Scott Eastwood in the movie, The Longest Ride, being the only one of four doubles who managed to make a virtually 8 second ride on the PBR top ranked bull Rango for an ending scene.
 His bull riding career was cut short by a neck injury sustained during a dismount from a bull he had just finished making an 8-second ride on at a PBR BFTS event in January 2016.
 He sustained a break to his C-2 vetebra.
 Bolton was temporarily paralyzed, but made a full recovery.
 The parent company, IMG, of the PBR made an offer to contract him as a fashion model in May 2016.
 Bolton now works steadily as a fashion model.
Christopher Livingstone Eubanks (born 8 August 1966), known as Chris Eubank, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 1998.
 He held the WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles, scoring victories over six world champions, and is ranked by BoxRec as the third best British super-middleweight boxer of all time.
William Ray "Billy" Collins Jr. (September 21, 1961 – March 6, 1984) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1983.
 His career was cut short after his final fight when he sustained serious injuries against an opponent who used illegal, tampered gloves and hands which had been soaked in plaster of Paris.
Dmitry Yurievich Pirog (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог ; born 27 June 1980) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2012.
 He held the WBO middleweight title from 2010 to 2012, and although his career was cut short due to a debilitating back injury, he is one of the few professional boxers to win a world title and retire undefeated.
Michael Watson, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 15 March 1965) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 1991.
 He held the Commonwealth middleweight title from 1989 to 1991, and challenged three times for a world title between 1990 and 1991.
 Watson's career was cut short as a result of near-fatal injury sustained during a loss to Chris Eubank for the WBO super-middleweight title in 1991.
Peter Morrison (born 29 June 1980) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a midfielder for Scunthorpe United.
 His career was cut short as the result of an injury sustained in a game v Grimsby Town FC in 2001, after which he became a football agent.

Question: Michael Watson's career was cut short as a result of a near-fatal injury sustained during a loss to a British former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to what year?
Answer: 1998