{"id":267699,"date":"2018-01-11T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267699"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:08:00","slug":"vitor-belfort-will-retire-ufc-missouri-fighting-uriah-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/vitor-belfort\/vitor-belfort-will-retire-ufc-missouri-fighting-uriah-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitor Belfort Will Retire at UFC Missouri After Fighting Uriah Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who was once reported to have &#8216;no known weaknesses,&#8217; turned out to have one: Time. It&#8217;s hard to believe that The Phenom has been fighting since 1996 and is about to strap on the gloves to fight this Sunday at UFC Missouri. He&#8217;s beaten all your favorite fighters in every different era: Wanderlei Silva, Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, Luke Rockhold, Michael Bisping. After legendary victories, highlight reel knockouts and a UFC belt, Belfort is finally walking away at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is my retirement fight. After that I\u2019m going to put my body to rest. This is it. Breaking news. I think I did more than enough. Just to think back, sometimes I flashback just like Matt [Sera] said, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Wow, I\u2019m still doing this, wow man, this is crazy.\u2019\u00a0I\u2019m very thankful, but I think my body need to rest. I have other things, I have a business of my own, I developed have a system, I developed a group class training system that we\u2019re going to franchise. I just want to leave to help the sport in a way, work with the sport and help and do other things. We got to know the time to start and I think we need to know the time to end and it\u2019s about time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am around since 1977 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NVTzznuLD\">pic.twitter.com\/5NVTzznuLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vitor Belfort (@vitorbelfort) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vitorbelfort\/status\/940410917782769665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou cannot tell me that the 40-year-old has a fresh body. Of course, it\u2019s not the same. I\u2019m very fortunate that I knew how to, I had a lot of experience and I had the chance to work with the best coaches and fitness products in the world, so I knew how to take care of my body, but I think it\u2019s time you know. I\u2019ve got kids and I want to be able to, I think I donate a lot of time in a lot of stuff to the sport and I think it\u2019s time. I see the sport is growing and there are great talents.\u00a0I\u2019m just leaving the sport where guys in my era are never expected to still be fighting and still be relevant. I think I need to walk away and that was my journey. I accomplished a lot of great things and I want to do all the great things. I\u2019m about to start on my second journey of life and I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanytt.com\/latest-news\/breaking-vitor-belfor-retire-fight-uriah-hall-sunday\/\">Vitor Belfort speaking on the UFC Unfiltered podcast transcribed via MMA NYTT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His last win was against Nate Marquardt, who just retired himself. 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