Cormier sets retirement date for early next year

D. Cormier (left) already has a date to hang up his gloves (Photo: Reproduction Facebook ufc)

Current UFC light heavyweight champion, and coming off yet another defense of his belt, the first in the new kingdom, Daniel Cormier He only has one year left in his career. The fighter himself guaranteed that he will not perform beyond his 40th birthday and scheduled his definitive retirement from the octagon for March of next year, more precisely on the 20th, when he turns 40.

after winning Volkan oezdemir In the co-main fight of UFC 220, the American declared, in an interview with The MMA Hour, that he will fight for just one more year due to the sacrifices his family makes for his career.

“When March arrives, I will have 12 more months at most. I will be done on March 20, 2019. I will not fight again. I will be 40 years old. I will not come back. There will be no comeback or 'I'm retired until I get the right kind of fight'. It will be the end. I won't do that anymore. I've said time and time again that I've lived a great life in sports. I loved every moment of it. My family revolved around sport. Not just Selena and the children, but also my father and mother”, commented Cormier, leaving the possibility of helping his children to also pursue a career in sports in the air.

I've been the center of my family's athletic universe for a long time and it's time to do that for little Daniel and Marquita. I want to be one of those parents who goes crazy and screams on the sidelines, bragging about their kids,” he said.

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