{"id":347806,"date":"2020-04-22T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=347806"},"modified":"2020-04-22T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:28:50","slug":"ray-borg-regrets-promising-to-retire-if-he-missed-weight-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ray-borg-regrets-promising-to-retire-if-he-missed-weight-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Borg regrets promising to retire if he missed weight again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, after missing weight for a bantamweight fight with Casey Kenny, Ray Borg vowed to retire if he ever missed his mark on the scale again.<\/p>\n<p>He admits he regrets making that promise.<\/p>\n<p>Borg, who has missed weight again since that blunder, opened up on the topic during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/04\/ufc-ray-borg-regrets-retirement-promise-missed-weight-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Borg anxious to fight anyone, put past issues behind\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xe2jr7I1qBk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, you say a lot of crazy (expletive) when you\u2019re trying to campaign for a fight,\u201d Borg said. \u201cWhen you really want to fight, sometimes you tweet some stuff that you may not mean in the long run and I guess I just had such sure confidence. You just don\u2019t walk away from the sport with something like that. I couldn\u2019t walk away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t let my son know I walked away from the sport because of that, so I guess that\u2019s why I\u2019m so eager to fight, because I\u2019m tired of this weight cut (expletive) hanging over my head,\u201d Borg added. \u201cI know there\u2019s only one way to make it go away and that\u2019s to make weight and put on a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray Borg was expected to return to the cage against Marlon Vera at UFC 249 on April 18. However, the card was ultimately canceled amid growing restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic. While many of the bouts scheduled for May 18 have been rescheduled for the revamped UFC 249 card on May 9, the Borg vs. Vera fight has not yet been official rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Ray Borg?<\/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 4\/22\/2020.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last April, after missing weight for a bantamweight fight with Casey Kenny, Ray Borg vowed to retire if he ever missed his mark on the scale again. He admits he regrets making that promise. Borg, who has missed weight again since that blunder, opened up on the topic during an interview with MMA Junkie. \u201cYeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":292106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11211,39610],"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>Ray Borg regrets promising to retire if he missed weight again | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last April, after missing weight for a bantamweight fight with Casey Kenny, Ray Borg vowed to retire if he ever missed his mark on the scale again.\u00a0\" \/>\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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