Stipe Miocic issued a prolonged assertion Monday after his retirement within the Octagon at UFC 309 on Saturday night time.
The previous UFC heavyweight champion, who posted a 20-5 document in his professional profession, thanked his coaches, his opponents, his spouse, and the followers within the social media put up.
Let me begin this put up by saying I’m good. Been via loads worse. I hope everyone loved the present on Saturday. What an unimaginable manner exit! I began this journey combating in native bowling alleys & ended it promoting out Madison Sq. Backyard. It actually doesn’t get batter than that.
Sorry I don’t get the W, however you possibly can’t get em all. Typically it’s not your night time, that’s the nature of the beast. You’ll be able to’t plan an ideal ending on this sport, however I assume the right ending is to have been fortunate sufficient to do it in any respect. You all have given me a lot, and I hope I did you all proud. Croatia & Cleveland Ohio particularly. I felt all of you with me at each battle.
To Marcus Marinelli and the Strongstyle group. We began collectively, we completed collectively. We cried collectively & we bled collectively. If individuals solely knew the entire story of every little thing we’ve been via… we may write a reasonably badass novel. There’s no person else I might have shared this journey with… one of the best half is that we’re household endlessly… Marcus, I do know my father has handed. However I additionally know he appreciates you stepping in and being the daddy determine I wanted in my life. We had a hell of a run coach. You devoted years of your life to me. We made historical past primarily based on a dream and also you had a imaginative and prescient. Now we’ve extra time to drink wine and play euchre whereas making enjoyable of Bobby as a result of he’s horrible at defending him self.
To my opponents, thanks all. I realized one thing from each single one among you. It was a honor to go to warfare brothers
To my spouse, you might be my rock. The ship doesn’t sail with out you. You sacrificed a lot for this dream and I really like you. God knew I wanted you & you encourage me greater than anyone! I’ll miss hanging up on you on Embedded, however there’s YouTube for that To my children, every little thing I’ve ever carried out is all for the 2 of you. To my Mother, I do know this isn’t the profession you’ll have selected for me, however you’ve got at all times been in my nook since day one.. it was me & you. To my Vayner sports activities household, you guys are one of the best within the enterprise!
And at last to the followers, you guys are the heartbeat of this sport. You might be what makes the MMA superb! With out you, we fighters don’t even exist. The frenzy you gave me strolling right down to that octagon is endlessly engraved in my reminiscence! Thanks for that
I’m not goin wherever. Excited to begin some new tasks, convey again the podcast, break down all my fights & share my actuality with you!
Till my subsequent combat……. simply kidding, simply kidding!
Ceaselessly grateful. It’s been a hell of a trip!
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Miocic ended his profession as the best UFC heavyweight champion. He set the document for many heavyweight title defenses with 4 when he defeated Daniel Cormier with a unanimous resolution win at UFC 252 on Aug. 18, 2022. He ended his profession with two straight knockout losses to Francis Ngannou at UFC 260 and Jon Jones at UFC 309..
