{"id":464308,"date":"2022-11-30T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=464308"},"modified":"2022-11-30T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:09:32","slug":"kevin-holland-reveals-his-retirement-is-still-on-the-table-depending-on-what-the-ufc-does-with-khamzat-chimaev-favoritism-is-favoritism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/kevin-holland-reveals-his-retirement-is-still-on-the-table-depending-on-what-the-ufc-does-with-khamzat-chimaev-favoritism-is-favoritism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Holland reveals his retirement is “still on the table” depending on what the UFC does with Khamzat Chimaev: “Favoritism is favoritism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Holland will gladly go back into retirement.<\/p>\n

Holland retired following his first-round submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev but quickly ended it to take a main event fight against Stephen Thompson at UFC Orlando<\/a>. Although not many expected his retirement to last, Holland says he will go back into retirement if Chimaev gets a title shot at middleweight next time out.<\/p>\n

“It was serious as hell, super serious. It\u2019s still on the table. If I wake up Sunday morning after beating \u2018Wonderboy\u2019 and you guys have Chimaev fighting for a 185-pound world title, and he\u2019s never won a fight at 85 in the top-15, I\u2019m retired,” Holland said at UFC Orlando media day<\/a>. “I understand business is business, but favoritism is favoritism. The kid missed weight. I had to step up and fight him after he missed weight to make the fight happen, I shouldn\u2019t have had to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland happy to ‘play video games for the rest of my life’<\/h4>\n

\u201cI did what I had to do, I did what I was supposed to do as a company man, so I\u2019m sitting here telling you guys now,” Holland continued. “Certain things have to go certain ways. If they don\u2019t go certain ways and we don\u2019t get what we were promised, the things we talked about aren\u2019t honored, you might as well give me my resignation papers and go home and smoke weed and play video games for the rest of my life. Open up a Twitch and see how I do.”<\/p>\n

Of course, since Alex Pereira dethroned Israel Adesanya to become the new middleweight champion, Khamzat Chimaev has called him out. It would be a massive fight that both are interested in, but Holland doesn’t want that to happen as he thinks the Swede should earn the title shot.<\/p>\n

As for Kevin Holland, he is returning back to the welterweight division on Saturday against Thompson. Since he dropped down in weight, he’s 2-0 with two stoppage wins over Tim Means and Alex Oliveira.<\/p>\n

What do you make of Kevin Holland saying he will retire again if Khamzat Chimaev gets a title shot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Holland will gladly go back into retirement. Holland retired following his first-round submission loss to Khamzat Chimaev but quickly ended it to take a main event fight against Stephen Thompson at UFC Orlando. 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