UFC legend Dustin Poirier has opened up on how he feels about his ongoing combined martial arts retirement.
As we all know, Dustin Poirier is now not an lively MMA fighter after hanging up his gloves earlier this 12 months. Whereas he’s focusing his consideration on different issues, together with some analyst work, it’s clear to see that ‘The Diamond’ continues to be in there, and that he’s nonetheless hungry to be the warrior that everyone knows him to be.
In a latest interview, Poirier spoke candidly about how a lot he’s been battling retirement.
Dustin Poirier discusses MMA retirement
“Yeah, it’s more durable than I believed it might be,” Poirier instructed MMA Combating whereas selling a brand new partnership with Bud Mild. “I believed it might be a reduction. After I lastly put the gloves down, and I don’t have this weight on my again, or this cloud over my head of getting higher, or what’s subsequent, there’s one other fighter coaching to compete towards me. That’s been like that in my thoughts for 20 years. I believed it might be a reduction and an exhale, and life would start otherwise, however it sort of hasn’t but.
“Possibly I’m nonetheless processing, perhaps it’s going to take extra time than I anticipated, however once you do one thing for this lengthy and dedicate your life to it, day by day I used to be waking up with a hearth beneath me attempting to be a greater fighter, get in higher form, be taught new tips, ask questions. It was a journey of discovering out quite a bit about myself, however discovering it out by means of martial arts.
“After which sooner or later you get up and it’s simply not there, however the hearth’s nonetheless there. However the truth that I’m not going to get to do that once more — and any time I’ve ever misplaced in my profession I’ve all the time righted the ship, I’ve all the time put issues again in the correct route — and now strolling away from this, I do know that was it. I don’t get an opportunity to proper this ship anymore, I don’t get an opportunity to place my fingers within the air once more.
“I miss it greater than I believed I might, and I’m nonetheless processing all of it daily. Time heals all, however I’m simply hoping I get into a greater move. I’ve been actually simply attempting to maintain my thoughts busy, staying busy doing issues so I don’t have time to sit down round. However, God, I’ve acquired to let you know, the times are lengthy once I’m not waking up coaching, coming dwelling, coaching once more, doing street work. It’s a lifestyle. It’s not only a sport I competed in, it was a approach I lived my life, and I’m nonetheless processing.”
Quotes by way of MMA Combating
