Miguel Torres has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts after a 53-bout professional career.
The 36-year-old Chicago native revealed his decision in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening.
“As I sit here on the mat in my academy contemplating my life and all of the possibilities that can manifest from just mere choice, my heart feels too overburdened and overwhelmed to be able to seriously train for another fight. Wearing so many hats does not afford me the time to seriously do what is in my heart to do,” he wrote. “When this journey started it was to make a name for myself, show everyone that I was not an ordinary man, to show all the little guys size doesn't matter, to make my family proud of all their sacrifices, so my daughter would know her daddy did something special for her, and now things are different.