{"id":367382,"date":"2020-11-11T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=367382"},"modified":"2020-11-11T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:22:20","slug":"paul-felder-50-50-chance-ill-retire-with-dos-anjos-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paul-felder-50-50-chance-ill-retire-with-dos-anjos-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Felder: &#8220;50-50&#8221; chance I&#8217;ll retire with dos Anjos win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Felder says there&#8217;s a &#8220;50-50&#8221; chance he&#8217;ll retire if he defeats Rafael dos Anjos in the main event of UFC Vegas 13 this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Anjos was originally expected to take on Islam Makhachev in the card&#8217;s main event. When Makhachev was ruled out of the fight with staph infection, however, Felder stepped in on just five days&#8217; notice.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of fight, Felder spoke to ESPN and conceded that there&#8217;s a 50 percent chance he&#8217;ll retire after the fact, particularly if he&#8217;s victorious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Felder talks accepting Rafael dos Anjos fight on five days\u2019 notice | Ariel Helwani\u2019s MMA Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T19OtPqRnyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"4AKb4m\">\u201cI say 50-50,\u201d Felder said when asked how likely he is to retire after his fight with dos Anjos (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2020\/11\/11\/21559666\/ufc-vegas-14-paul-felder-50-50-percent-chance-i-retire-if-i-beat-rafael-dos-anjos-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>). \u201cI was thinking about that. What a way to just be like, \u2018Boom! Mic drop.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"9sYUBd\">\u201c(The odds will) probably do increase (if I win),\u201d he continued. \u201cIf I lose, then I might want to have to get back in there for one more. It might eat away at me, just kind of like the Hooker fight that I was ready to move on. And then it\u2019s like, \u2018No.\u2019 I still haven\u2019t proven quite what I\u2019m capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Felder has been teasing retirement for the better part of a year now. From the sounds of it, however, this short-notice fight with dos Anjos was simply too good an opportunity to pass up.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gSU2Y8\">\u201cI know I\u2019m nearing the end of my career soon, and this, I think, it\u2019s win-win for me,\u201d Felder said. \u201cBecause if I go in there and I can finish and beat RDA, a former champ, then it gives me a lot of selling points to be getting these bigger fights which seem to have been eluding me in the top five of the lightweight division here in the UFC. How do you not give me something big after this if I go in there after stepping up?<\/p>\n<p id=\"MP1Jkf\">\u201cIf it doesn\u2019t go my way, then I saved the day. I\u2019m going in there to try to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Paul Felder will retire after his fight this weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Felder says there&#8217;s a &#8220;50-50&#8221; chance he&#8217;ll retire if he defeats Rafael dos Anjos in the main event of UFC Vegas 13 this Saturday. Dos Anjos was originally expected to take on Islam Makhachev in the card&#8217;s main event. 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