Carlos Condit, former interim UFC welterweight champion, has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts. Although Condit’s career included impressive fights against Georges St-Pierre, Nick Diaz, and Robbie Lawler, the last few years were less kind to Condit. His most recent fight, a unanimous decision loss to Max Griffin, came at UFC 264 in July.
Speaking on The MMA Hour, Condit opened up about how the “diminishing returns” of a long career in the fight game led to his retirement decision. “It was time, man.
Carlos Condit Explains Retirement Decision
It was time. For a lot of different reasons. After that last fight, I felt like I put together a good camp and I was just a step behind Max.
I feel like I could really try to tweak things and I could try to figure out what’s missing, what part of the formula isn’t working right now and then go and test it again and test it again, but that’s a tough thing to do.
That’s a tough thing to do because ultimately I have to go and put myself on the firing line to see if what I’m doing is working.
“At a certain point there’s diminishing returns, so I think it’s time to move on.” Condit realized it was time to exit the spotlight when he stopped caring about the loss.
“I’d been leaving a hotel room after a loss and been p*ssed off and leaving all my gear in a real salty mood and basically, ‘I’m done with this s*it.
But this time was different. I wasn’t salty about it, I just felt like it was the right move. Probably about three weeks or a month ago I called Dana and I let him know, so this thing has been coming down the pipe for a little while.”
In a 19-year career, it’s difficult for Condit to pick a sole moment as a highlight. Although he feels that this was the perfect time for him to retire, Condit looks back on a career that he enjoyed every moment of.
I’ve loved every f*cking second of it. The ups, the downs, all of it. If I had to pick a specific one, these last two fights that I won when we were out in Abu Dhabi and really just living in this surreal atmosphere.
My coaches are all my really good friends and we had the opportunity to go to this crazy nice place and fight. That was a lot of fun. But I have 19, almost 20 years worth of memories so it would be really hard to pinpoint.”
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