{"id":290747,"date":"2018-11-08T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=290747"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:36:57","slug":"rick-story-announces-retirement-from-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/professional-fighters-league\/rick-story-announces-retirement-from-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Story announces retirement from MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of his most recent loss that saw him suffer a broken arm in the PFL welterweight tournament quarter-finals, former UFC veteran Rick &#8220;The Horror&#8221; Story is calling it a career.<\/p>\n<p>The former top 10 UFC contender took to Twitter today to announce the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTo all my fans, friends and supporters, thank you.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mAumWDNB8q\">pic.twitter.com\/mAumWDNB8q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick (@Rick_Story) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rick_Story\/status\/1060675208703406080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It\u2019s been a career with significant highs and lows, through the good and the bad times, my goals were what drove me and the fans were always my inspiration, for this I thank all of you. To my friends, family and others who have supported me along this journey, I thank you for always being there, and for showing me that there is more to life after fighting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s time for me to turn my own page. I look forward to what the future holds, and I cannot wait.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to give a special thanks to: John Crouch and Ben Henderson for giving me the opportunity to train at the MMA lab at my most vulnerable point in my career.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Paradigm Sports Management and Audie Attar for doing a fantastic job for me the time we have worked together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And to Madeline Torres, for all of your love, relentless support and continuous sacrifices you have made for my career.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Rick Story<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Story began his career in 2007, nine fights later he would find himself in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>After losing his promotional debut to John Hathaway, Story would go on a tear that saw him win five in a row with one of those wins coming over the future welterweight champion Johny Hendricks.<\/p>\n<p>It was after the bout with Hendricks that Story would launch his name into contention.<\/p>\n<p>At UFC 130, Story was booked to face the recent title challenger Thiago Alves and was a sizeable underdog. But it didn&#8217;t matter as Story would go in there and earn the biggest win of his career by clearcut unanimous decision thus making it known that he was a threat to the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year old finishes his career with a 21-10 record (12-7 UFC) and notable wins over the likes of Gunnar Nelson, Jake Ellenberger, Yuri Villefort, Brian Ebersole, former Strikeforce champion Tarec Saffiedine and the previously mentioned Hendricks and Alves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 11\/8\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of his most recent loss that saw him suffer a broken arm in the PFL welterweight tournament quarter-finals, former UFC veteran Rick &#8220;The Horror&#8221; Story is calling it a career. The former top 10 UFC contender took to Twitter today to announce the news. \u201cTo all my fans, friends and supporters, thank you.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54445,"featured_media":290750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[24130,39486],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rick Story announces retirement from MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In wake of his most recent loss that saw him suffer a broken arm, PFL and former UFC veteran Rick &quot;The Horror&quot; Story is calling it a career.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/professional-fighters-league\/rick-story-announces-retirement-from-mma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rick Story announces retirement from MMA | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In wake of his most recent loss that saw him suffer a broken arm, PFL and former UFC veteran Rick &quot;The Horror&quot; 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