When MMA hunters retire, this usually means that they are planning to continue fighting – just not for which promotion they had forced – but not Jalin Turner.
After his loss of submission at UFC 313, the popular lightweight competition Jalin Turner announced his retirement of the MMA sport, even though he was still in his 'Fighting Prime' at only 29 years old.
However, as we have seen with the entire series of recent pensioners who sign with the GFL promotion, the decision to walk away is not more than not falling.
So, how is the feeling 'the Tarantula' about his UFC exit?
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UFC Lightweight Jalin Turner offers an emotional pension update
Speaking through the Ariel Helwani show earlier this week, Jalin 'The Tarantula' Turner thought about his decision to stop after his first-round submission loss at UFC 313.
'Yes, I still feel the same [about retirement]. It has established a little more. I received my pension letter from the UFC and I still stay with the decision [so] That is what I am with now.
'I took some free time [after UFC 300] And I got away … For about 11 months, almost a year, and I just tried to find if I had the fire, the drive, the inspiration to fight, “Turner continued.
“There was so much going on, there is so much to me with me, and the defeat is always bad. I just had to process a number of things that I went through and I kept trying to find the love for the sport again – and it just kept decreasing.”
Turner made his UFC debut in 2018 and competed 13 times under the UFC banner, scored four KO/TKO and three submissions wins in his time with the promotion.
As appropriate by the popular lightweight, “it is difficult to be at the top of the sport and to be mentally inconsistent” because he also acknowledged that it is sad to process 'the death of his dreams'.
“I feel that a weight has been lifted, but it is also the death of my dreams, [and] It's hard – I mourn there, the more [it] Sets in the more I think about it, it's hard. There are good days and bad days … I fight back in tears that talk about it … I think it's just, you know, it's the right decision. “
Jalin Turner admits that he did not want to accept a definitive UFC fight
Although the UFC Exexit of Turner Bitterzoet is in the aftermath of UFC 313, 'The Tarantula' has also revealed that he did not want to accept that fight against Ignacio Bahamondes in the first place.
“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, “he explained in a conversation with Submission Radio.
“I finally saw the fighting contract, I don't know why, I don't know what happened, but I still got the fighting contract and I prayed about it, thought about it and I was like a man, I feel that God told me that I shouldn't win, so I got the contract and I was good, I'm going to do it.
“I will just do it, come over this fear, just overcome what I think I am bothering myself. That is something that I am always proud of is about my fears, it is how I have been nicknamed 'Tarantula' to start with.”
During the press conference after the fight, UFC CEO Dana White agreed with the decision of Turner to retire, whereby the UFC CEO easily acknowledges: “You know how I think about that.
'Usually when you start [considering hanging up the gloves]Rarely do I disagree with someone if they feel they are retiring. '
Jalin Turner bends with a professional record of 14-9.
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