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Evan Tanner: “I’m Done, I’m Retiring”
By CagE | June 25, 2008
UFC middleweight veteran Evan Tanner, contiplates retiring on his latest blog entry on SpikeTV. Tanner is coming off a hard fought loss to Kendall Grove at the TUF 7 Finale.
Losing sucks. It’s been pretty tough the last couple of days. I’ve been keeping to myself. I haven’t felt like talking with anyone. I haven’t seen anything about the fight. I know I looked really bad. I don’t need to see it, or hear about it to know that. I’ve been having some serious health problems for a while now. They’ve caused me some problems in my daily life and have seriously affected my training. I obviously haven’t been the same guy in the ring.
I’m going to be taking a little time off to see a doctor. If we can’t get this health issue figured out, I’m done, I’m retiring. I don’t want to step back into the Octagon unless I’m 100%, and I can give the fans the type of fight they deserve to see.
I don’t see it coming to that though. Tomorrow I’m hopping on the bike, and riding up to Oregon to visit the good doctor. I’ve got a good feeling about things
Topics: News, The Ultimate Fighter, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) | 9 Comments »
June 25th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I love how they take the the whole story then ignore everything but “I’m done, I’m retiring”.. He says he will if he cant clear up his health issues.. he still wants to fight.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Evan is a hell of a fighter, I hope he can get his health issues resolved and gets back in the octogon.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
best of luck to him what ever he decides to do.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:48 am
damn that sucks
June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Well he doesn’t have too many years left in top level competition anyway. Retire, enjoy yourself.
June 25th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Going to “Oregon” for a good doctor…?
June 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I bet he’ll show up in a smaller promotion somewhere. As long as he can convince himself that he wasn’t 100 percent then he’ll want to get in the ring again.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Does he really have a choice? LMAO the guy is as 1 dimensional as they come and its not 1999 anymore so better luck with w/e u decide to do now Evan.lol
July 12th, 2008 at 1:16 am
tanner seems like a strange dude but i respect the hell out of him and i would love to see him fight again. i thought him and grove had a pretty competitive fight and i think tanner won the last round.