Last night, UFC veteran Felice Herrig suffered a tough submission loss to former title challenger Karolina Kowalkiewicz. In the post fight interview she announced her retirement from the sport of MMA.
“It’s been an honor being in the UFC for eight years, and fighting for 20,” Herrig said. “The biggest thing for me is I had two ACL surgeries and I really wanted to not go out like that. I really wanted to prove to myself that I can overcome two knee surgeries and come back and still fight at the highest level.”
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Felice Herrig: “I’m proud and I’m not proud”
At the post-fight press conference, the UFC veteran, who also competed in Bellator and Invicta FC, emotionally detailed her retirement.
“I just wanted the fight to be over”, Herrig told the press. “And I’m not saying that I gave up, I just realized that this isn’t, you know, for me anymore.”
“I’m proud and I’m not proud. I feel like my anxiety for so long got, like my anxiety about the scale. I had a lot of eating disorders which helped me not perform so well. I had a lot of anxiety about the sport and the media. I was like I can’t say this in my interviews because they’ll take it like this. I feel like I could’ve done more.”
Felcie Herrig retires from MMA with a professional record of 14-10. During her long career she faced some of the world’s best fighters in Carla Esparza, Tecia Torres and Michelle Waterson.
Prior to the MMA career, Herrig held a professional kickboxing record of 23-5.
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