UFC legend Dustin Poirier has opened up on how he feels about his ongoing combined martial arts retirement.
As we all know, Dustin Poirier is now not an energetic MMA fighter after hanging up his gloves earlier this 12 months. Whereas he’s focusing his consideration on different issues, together with some analyst work, it’s clear to see that ‘The Diamond’ continues to be in there, and that he’s nonetheless hungry to be the warrior that everyone knows him to be.
In a latest interview, Poirier spoke candidly about how a lot he’s been fighting retirement.
Dustin Poirier discusses MMA retirement
“Yeah, it’s more durable than I assumed it will be,” Poirier informed MMA Combating whereas selling a brand new partnership with Bud Gentle. “I assumed it will be a aid. Once I lastly put the gloves down, and I don’t have this weight on my again, or this cloud over my head of getting higher, or what’s subsequent, there’s one other fighter coaching to compete towards me. That’s been like that in my thoughts for 20 years. I assumed it will be a aid and an exhale, and life would start differently, however it form of hasn’t but.
“Possibly I’m nonetheless processing, perhaps it’s going to take extra time than I anticipated, however while you do one thing for this lengthy and dedicate your life to it, day by day I used to be waking up with a hearth beneath me attempting to be a greater fighter, get in higher form, be taught new tips, ask questions. It was a journey of discovering out so much about myself, however discovering it out by martial arts.
“After which sooner or later you get up and it’s simply not there, however the hearth’s nonetheless there. However the truth that I’m not going to get to do that once more — and any time I’ve ever misplaced in my profession I’ve at all times righted the ship, I’ve at all times put issues again in the correct path — and now strolling away from this, I do know that was it. I don’t get an opportunity to proper this ship anymore, I don’t get an opportunity to place my arms within the air once more.
“I miss it greater than I assumed I’d, and I’m nonetheless processing all of it daily. Time heals all, however I’m simply hoping I get into a greater movement. I’ve been actually simply attempting to maintain my thoughts busy, staying busy doing issues so I don’t have time to sit down round. However, God, I’ve acquired to inform you, the times are lengthy once I’m not waking up coaching, coming dwelling, coaching once more, doing street work. It’s a lifestyle. It’s not only a sport I competed in, it was a method I lived my life, and I’m nonetheless processing.”
Quotes through MMA Fighting
