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Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Plans To Retire In Two Years

Posted by Vegas Martin in UFC News on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
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Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, who will face Matt Hamill in the main event of later this month for a possible title shot, plans to retire from mixed martial arts within two years.

Just days after commenting that he’d quit MMA once “movies start paying me more than fighting,” the nearly 33-year-old Jackson told ESPN that he plans to retire when he turns 35:

“I’ve always said I’ll retire when I’m 35. I don’t want to fight past 35. There are young guys coming in and doing good. I’ve been fighting for a long time and it’s no secret that I don’t fight the same way I used to.

“I’ve got a lot of injuries, one or two things that bother me. But when I’m fighting, the injuries don’t bother me, it’s the training that gets old. Going through each camp I go through all these pains and think, ‘Man I don’t want to do this anymore’. But after the fight I say, ‘OK, I’ll give it one more’. So who knows? But at 35 I’m done.”

 

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