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 file in his professional profession, thanked his coaches, his opponents, his spouse, and the followers within the social media submit.
Let me begin this submit by saying I’m good. Been by way of lots worse. I hope everyone loved the present on Saturday. What an unimaginable approach 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’ll be able to’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 suppose the proper 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 staff. We began collectively, we completed collectively. We cried collectively & we bled collectively. If folks solely knew the entire story of every thing we have now been by way of… we may write a reasonably badass novel. There’s no one else I might have shared this journey with… the perfect half is that we’re household eternally… 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 have now 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 discovered one thing from each single one in every of you. It was a honor to go to conflict brothers
To my spouse, you’re 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 inspire me greater than anyone! I’ll miss hanging up on you on Embedded, however there’s YouTube for that To my youngsters, every thing I’ve ever accomplished 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 have got at all times been in my nook since day one.. it was me & you. To my Vayner sports activities household, you guys are the perfect within the enterprise!
And eventually to the followers, you guys are the heartbeat of this sport. You’re what makes the MMA superb! With out you, we fighters don’t even exist. The push you gave me strolling all the way down to that octagon is eternally engraved in my reminiscence! Thanks for that
I’m not goin anyplace. Excited to start out some new tasks, deliver again the podcast, break down all my fights & share my actuality with you!
Till my subsequent battle……. simply kidding, simply kidding!
Ceaselessly grateful. It’s been a hell of a experience!
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Miocic ended his profession as the best UFC heavyweight champion. He set the file 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..
