{"id":114495,"date":"2014-10-06T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=114495"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:21:26","slug":"enson-inoue-retires-from-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/enson-inoue-retires-from-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Enson Inoue Retires From MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/enson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/enson.jpg\" alt=\"enson\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/enson.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/enson-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/enson-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MMA pioneer Enson Inoue officially retired from MMA earlier today, posting a message on the UnderGround.<\/p>\n<p>Inoue hadn&#8217;t fought since 2010, where he defeated Antz Nansen, but never officially announced his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>A pioneer of MMA, Inoue fought in several of the biggest MMA promotions in the world including Shooto where he was a champion, the UFC, and PRIDE FC.  Inoue fought the best throughout his career including Randy Couture, Frank Shamrock, Igor Vovchanchyn, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mark Kerr, Heath Herring and more.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look across this arena tonight and all I feel is appreciation.<br \/>\nAppreciation for you the promoters who gives us fighters a battlefield,<br \/>\nAppreciation for the staff who work hard to make this possible,<br \/>\nAlso appreciation to you the fans, for without you fans there would be no need for fighters. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I have never, not once turned away a fan and&#8230; I never will. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that today, I will be saying goodbye to this ring.<br \/>\nThis ring has helped become the man I am today and it is the place that has helped me find my way in life. <\/p>\n<p>The Yamatodamashii way.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day. <\/p>\n<p>Nor is it about having no fear, but it&#8217;s about having fears but never running from and facing them head one no matter how scared you may be. <\/p>\n<p>The Yamatodamashii way is a way that helps me with the acceptance of dying tomorrow if means dying with honor,<br \/>\nThe Yamatodamashii way gives me compassion to do everything in my power to help ones in need, <\/p>\n<p>They Yamatodamashii way gives me integrity to do what right even if you may need to make great sacrifices or bear much suffering. <\/p>\n<p>Every time I fought I climbed into this ring I acceptIng in my heart that I was going to die here. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t die but instead I was reborn as a real man. <\/p>\n<p>A man that will live a life of Yamatodamashii and<\/p>\n<p>A man that will face death with Yamatodamashii burning in my heart. <\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8230; Thank you from the bottom of my heart. <\/p>\n<p>To fighting&#8230;. Thank and goodbye<\/p>\n<p>Yamatodamashii until the death<br \/>\n????????<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Enson Inoue for the memories throughout your historic MMA career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA pioneer Enson Inoue officially retired from MMA earlier today, posting a message on the UnderGround. Inoue hadn&#8217;t fought since 2010, where he defeated Antz Nansen, but never officially announced his retirement. 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