{"id":334635,"date":"2019-12-09T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=334635"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:06:58","slug":"jorge-masvidal-lays-out-his-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-lays-out-his-retirement-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal lays out his retirement plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019 has been a huge year for Jorge Masvidal. He intends to keep that momentum going in 2020, win the UFC welterweight title, and retire in then next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal laid out his retirement plans in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/12\/9\/21002755\/jorge-masvidal-just-set-his-retirement-date-isnt-leaving-without-ufc-belt-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorge Masvidal Down To &quot;Domesticate Savages&quot; In WWE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvtZ4jIXdAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"DjJxIk\">\u201cBefore I close the next chapter and go on to whatever the fuck in my life, I\u2019m gonna get that belt and whoever has it, I\u2019m gonna take their head off,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cThen I\u2019m gonna defend that belt and I\u2019m gonna kick whoever they put in front of me\u2019s ass. I\u2019m gonna separate myself from the pack by eliminating people by having somebody stop me from doing further damage.<\/p>\n<p id=\"35Ub7v\">\u201cI got about three years left, then I\u2019ll hang up the gloves comfortably,\u201d Masvidal added. \u201cNot because I need to, but because I want to. I\u2019ll have enough money and everything I wanted to accomplish in these three years. It\u2019s more of a matter of who\u2019s going to bring me the most money in this next fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal began 2019 on a two-fight losing-streak, having come up short against Demian Maia and Stephen Thompson in a pair of 2017 bouts. He emerged from his lengthy layoff and erased the memory of those losses in the most emphatic fashion possible.<\/p>\n<p>First, he knocked out former UFC welterweight title challenger Darren Till with a blistering one-punch KO in March. Then, he handed Ben Askren his first professional loss with a five-second flying knee knockout in July \u2014 the fastest KO in UFC history. Most recently, in November, Masvidal captured the first-ever BMF title with a dominant stoppage victory over fellow fan favorite Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal has been competing as a professional mixed martial artist since 2003. In that time, he&#8217;s competed in the Bellator, Strikeforce and UFC cages and authored a long list of wins over top-flight foes.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think he&#8217;ll accomplish in the final three years of his career?<\/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\/9\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 has been a huge year for Jorge Masvidal. He intends to keep that momentum going in 2020, win the UFC welterweight title, and retire in then next three years. Masvidal laid out his retirement plans in an interview with MMA Mania. \u201cBefore I close the next chapter and go on to whatever the fuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":325964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10515,39610],"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>Jorge Masvidal lays out his retirement plans | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After an unbelievably successful run in 2019, top UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal lays out his plans for his retirement.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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