Ryan LaFlare recently announced his retirement from MMA, but a recent opponent thinks he’s calling it quits sooner than he needs to.
UFC welterweight Tony Martin, who knocked out LaFlare in the third round at UFC 229 earlier this month, said he believes LaFlare, a one-time UFC headliner and once-ranked welterweight, “still has a lot of miles left.”
“I truly believe that he’s still one of the top welterweights, and I think he has still the ability to beat a lot of the top fighters in the world,” Martin told BloodyElbow.com. “I think he’s a very strong fighter.