{"id":295289,"date":"2018-12-17T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=295289"},"modified":"2018-12-17T06:05:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:05:37","slug":"lightweight-veteran-bobby-green-announces-retirement-following-ufc-milwaukee-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/lightweight-veteran-bobby-green-announces-retirement-following-ufc-milwaukee-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightweight veteran Bobby Green announces retirement following UFC Milwaukee loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night in Milwaukee, veteran UFC lightweight Bobby Green stepped into the cage with dangerous prospect Drakkar Klose. Despite a solid effort, Green ultimately gave up a unanimous decision loss to his foe.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this defeat, Bobby Green took Instagram, where he announced his retirement from MMA \u2014 though this post has since been deleted.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6z5B8O\">\u201cIt is an interesting world we live in,\u201d he said (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2018\/12\/16\/18142958\/bobby-green-announces-retirement-from-mma-following-ufc-milwaukee-loss-im-going-to-focus-on-my-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cI felt I won but when we got these judges, you know. I think I\u2019m done. I think I\u2019m done. I\u2019m going to retire. I\u2019m going to focus on my kids. Focus on their upbringing. We give a lot of time away for this sport from my family. I\u2019m done. Thank you all for supporting me. I retire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"hnjYmW\">\u201cI don\u2019t have to deal with the (expletive) judges or deal with some of the lifestyle that comes with this,\u201d he continued. \u201cThank you all for your support. I will be deleting all my social media, and I\u2019m done. But thank you so much. I hope I inspired someone to do some thing. It\u2019s an honor and a blessing to have done this. Love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If this retirement is indeed final, Bobby Green leaves the competitive circuit with a strong\u00a024\u20138\u20131 overall record. Over the course of his impressive career, which has unfurled in the KOTC, Strikeforce and UFC cages, he&#8217;s defeated names like Dan Lauzon, &#8220;Felony&#8221; Charles Bennett, Daron Cruickshank,\u00a0Jacob Volkmann, James Krause, Pat Healy, Josh Thomson and Erik Koch. Green has lost four of his last six fights, coming up short against top-flight foes in Edson Barboza, Dustin Poirier, Rashid Magomedov, and now Klose.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats on a great career, Bobby Green!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 12\/17\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night in Milwaukee, veteran UFC lightweight Bobby Green stepped into the cage with dangerous prospect Drakkar Klose. Despite a solid effort, Green ultimately gave up a unanimous decision loss to his foe. 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