UFC 313 contained one of the most surprising retirement that we have seen in MMA for quite some time.
On March 8 in Las Vegas, Jalin Turner suffered his second consecutive loss and called time on his career in the immediate aftermath of the fight.
Turner confirmed his decision to retire via a social media post where he apologized to the fans and explained why he had come to this decision.
With 'De Tarantula' that fire no longer has him in him to keep pushing on a 29-year-old, Dana White agreed with Turner's decision to get away.
On the other hand, Ignacio Bahamonde's earned a lightweight ranking after he had submitted his opponent in the first round via Triangle Choke.
Jalin Turner opens the not's desire to compete on UFC 313
In a recent interview with Submission Radio, Jalin Turner spoke detailed about his decision to retire and when this thought came to him for the first time.
'The Tarantula' arrived in the UFC in 2018, where after a number of UPS and Downs he put together a win of five fights to climb the lightweight ladder and appear as a potential future star of the division.
Turner has since gone 1-4 in his last five and lost narrow split decisions to Mateusz Gamrot and then hooker, returning with a devastating knockout against King Green before he was stopped by Renato Moicano and Bahamondes.
He revealed that the idea of retiring began to play seriously in his mind after his loss against Micano at UFC 300, where he said he no longer had the desire to push through the pressure accompanied by fighting.
Turner stated that he originally did not even want to fight on UFC 313 until he saw it as an opportunity to try to win his fears.
“I spoke with my management and I have something like that:” I don't think I'm going to take this fight, I need a little more time “. In the end I have seen the fighting contract, I don't know why, I don't know what happened, but I still got the fighting contract and I prayed over it, thought over it and I was like a man, I got the contract I didn't have to do it.
“I will just do it, come over this fear, just overcome what I think I am bothering myself. That is something I am always proud of overcoming my fears, it is how I got the nickname 'Tarantula' to start with … It felt like I really didn't want to do it. I didn't want to overcome it. I didn't want to push it, I just didn't have the desire to push it through. ”
Jalin Turner emphasizes that these feelings are not exclusive
Jalin Turner made sure he wanted to get one message after he had talked about the pressure and fear he felt during his UFC career.
He wanted to emphasize that these feelings are not exclusive to him and his story with many hunters who fight against the same emotions when they enter the Octagon.
The difference for him is that he no longer has the passion and drive to spend himself to compete.
“The thing I want fans to understand is that all these things are normal. If you fight, when you sign that contract, you get scared. You are afraid of your opponent, you get scared, you get scared, you don't want to do it. You think about: “Oh man, I hope he slides away and falls on his way to the Octagon, so we don't have to fight.” You think of all these things and it's normal. ”
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