Jalin Turner surprisingly took off his gloves after dropping at UFC 313.
Turner (14-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) was submitted by Ignacio Bahamondes (17-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) in Spherical 1 of Saturday’s light-weight major card bout at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
The loss marked Turner’s fourth in his previous 5 outings. An emotional Turner defined why he determined to retire, regardless of being simply 29 years previous.
“I used to be already entertaining the thought, retiring after UFC 300,” Turner stated in an interview with Sportsnet. “(I) took a bit of little bit of day off, you understand – saved coaching, simply attempting to get my thoughts proper, simply deal with like my psychological well being. It’s onerous, man – preventing is difficult. I’ve been doing it for 12 years, and also you’ve both acquired to be all in or not. And even being in there now, I wasn’t totally all in as I assumed I might be. The choice to remain or not was truthfully based mostly off this struggle for me. I felt like I might get the nod, get the win.
“I’ve watched him. He’s an up-and-coming prospect. He deserved the chance, and I felt like I might get my hand raised and I didn’t. It’s emotional proper now, however I’ve been fascinated about this for the final 11 months if I’m going to maintain preventing or not. I used to be battling signing the struggle contract as a result of I didn’t know if I used to be retiring or not, didn’t understand how for much longer I wished to maintain doing this. My children are getting older. I don’t need to preserve taking harm. Coaching camps are onerous. Life has actually taken its toll the previous 11 months, so (I) simply have to step away for a bit of bit, perhaps endlessly.”
All through his UFC profession, Turner was in a position to enter the highest 15 UFC light-weight rankings by scoring finishes over the likes of Jamie Mullarkey, Brad Riddell and King Inexperienced.
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