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Former UFC fighter, Sam Stout, retired from the sport last week, following his recent KO loss to Frankie Perez only 54 seconds into the fight.<\/p>\n

Stout, only 31, has been fighting for a long time and has had countless wars inside the cage. He recently talked on The MMA Hour<\/a> and said he doesn’t have any noticeable concussion like symptoms, but decided to call it quits before that happened.<\/p>\n

He admitted that it’s clear he isn’t able to take the kind of punch he used to and his last three fights show that. All three of those fights ended in Stout getting knocked out.<\/p>\n

Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s strange man, it\u2019s so hard for me to wrap my brain around. But I think it was the right decision. I\u2019m only 31 years old and a lot of people are like, \u2018you\u2019re still so young,\u2019 but I\u2019ve got a lot of miles on me. I\u2019ve been doing this for half of my life. And I\u2019ve got my daughter Logan here, and losing those last three fights by knockout. I\u2019m not having any post-concussion symptoms, and I\u2019m not feeling any memory loss or anything along those lines that you hear about some of these guys suffering from, but I don\u2019t want to wait until that one shot that puts me over the edge and start having those. I\u2019d rather not wait until it\u2019s too late.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I clearly can\u2019t take a punch the same way I used to, so the decision wasn\u2019t that hard for me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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  Former UFC fighter, Sam Stout, retired from the sport last week, following his recent KO loss to Frankie Perez only 54 seconds into the fight. Stout, only 31, has been fighting for a long time and has had countless wars inside the cage. 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