Saturday’s UFC Fight Night from Stockholm, Sweden, ended up being less an MMA event as much as an office retirement party.
Within days of the show, three significant European stars said that they were done, Sweden’s superstar Alexander Gustafsson, fellow longtime ranked light heavyweight Jimi Manuwa and Nick Hein from Germany.
Of course retirements in fighting come with a catch. Even if the fighters are sincere, the public and the fighting community looking at history has been taught not to believe it. We’re about to see Urijah Faber come out of retirement next month at 40.