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Former UFC flyweight title challenger Ray Borg is no longer retired from mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n

Borg announced his retirement<\/a> last week, shortly after he was released from the UFC, conceding that he never expected to hang up the gloves at such a young age.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeen in this game for a solid 14 years, never did I think retirement would come at the age of 27,\u201d Borg wrote on his\u00a0Instagram account. \u201cBut some decisions are harder than others and I have to make sure I am making the right one for my family. I appreciate all the love the MMA community has shown my family over the years but it may be time to move on to the next chapter of my life. Much love everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily for Ray Borg fans, his retirement plans didn’t stick.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, my depression and stress got the best of me, and I was really in it that day. I was done. I just really didn\u2019t want more of the sport,\u201d Borg told Sherdog <\/a>(h\/t The Mac Life<\/a>). \u201cI have a family, a wife and a son, and the first thing I thought to myself was, \u2018I let myself get cut from the UFC, and I\u2019ve got to put food on the table\u2019. I think the best thing to do for myself and my family is to straight-up get a nine to five [job]. As gut-wrenching as something like that is to say. I had intentions on retiring. I really did.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I started getting messages from people, and the ones that really hit me hard were messages from kids I used to coach and train. Young kids who come from troubled beginnings. And I always told them to work hard and they can get themselves out of the gutter. And I had some kids message me saying, \u2018Hey coach, you can\u2019t retire. You taught me to be tougher than that. It\u2019s too soon for you, you\u2019re only 27.\u2019 Then I talked to me wife, and to be honest, my wife didn\u2019t know I decided I was going to retire. So she comes at me [and asks], \u2018What are you doing? Why are you retiring?\u2019 I was like, I have to. I\u2019ve got to pay the bills for you guys. And she\u2019s like, \u2018Nah, you can\u2019t.\u2019 And she let me know I owe it to my son. I can\u2019t have my son look at me in 10 years and tell me, \u2018Dad, why did you quit?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think the future holds for Ray Borg now that he’s back on the saddle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Borg announced his retirement last week, shortly after he was released from the UFC, conceding that he never expected to hang up the gloves at such a young age. \u201cBeen in this game for a solid 14 years, never did […]<\/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":"\nRay Borg ends retirement after one week | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC flyweight title challenger and long-time bantamweight contender Ray Borg is no longer retired from mixed martial arts.\u00a0\" \/>\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\/ufc\/ray-borg-ends-retirement-after-one-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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