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Anyone who thinks that a career Rashad evans It's near the end. Going through the worst phase of his career, the former UFC light heavyweight champion has had four consecutive defeats, having last won in November 2013, when he knocked out Chael Sonnen. However, the bad moment he experienced serves as a stimulus for 'Sugar', who discarded the idea of retiring with the negative series of results.
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“I can’t retire like this, coming off defeats. I would never know peace in my life again. I would spend endless nights staring at the ceiling, unable to accept reality”, he declared, in an interview with the 'MMA Fighting' website.
The two most recent defeats for Evans, who was surpassed by Dan Kelly and Sam alvey, took place in the middleweight division, up to 84kg. Without success in the new weight range, the North American is already considering a return to the light heavyweight category, in which he shined during his career in MMA.
“I have to talk about this, I don’t know yet, but I feel that at 93kg I had more energy”, he concluded
In the UFC since 2005, Rashad evans has already defeated important names such as Michael Bisping, Chuck Liddell, Quinton Rampage Jackson e Dan Henderson, but accumulates setbacks in the face of Lyoto Machida, Jon Jones, Rogério Minotouro e Glover Teixeira. At 38 years old, he has 14 wins, seven losses and one draw in the organization, and has a professional record of 19-7-1.
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