{"id":395734,"date":"2022-07-05T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=395734"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:00:13","slug":"knew-this-was-going-to-be-the-last-one-donald-cowboy-cerrone-reveals-fight-against-conor-mcgregor-was-the-begining-of-the-end-of-his-ufc-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/knew-this-was-going-to-be-the-last-one-donald-cowboy-cerrone-reveals-fight-against-conor-mcgregor-was-the-begining-of-the-end-of-his-ufc-career\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Knew This Was Going to be the Last One&#8230;&#8217;- Donald &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; Cerrone Reveals Fight Against Conor McGregor Was the Begining of the End of His UFC Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC legend Donald \u2018Cowboy\u2019 Cerrone called it quits on a long, accolade-filled career following his loss to Jim Miller at UFC 276. \u2018Cowboy\u2019 was submitted at 01:32 of the second round on the preliminary card of the most recent PPV that went down in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Cerrone lost six of his last seven fights, with one of the seven fights ending in a No Contest against Niko Price at UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs Covington. Not having won a fight since May 2019, it came as a surprise to no one that Cerrone\u2019s time inside the octagon would soon come to an end.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9K1IjjmYcS0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nothing-to-be-mad-about-anymore-jon-jones-provides-an-update-on-his-well-documented-rivalry-with-daniel-cormier\/\">\u2018Nothing to be Mad About Anymore\u2019- Jon Jones Provides an Update on His Well-Documented Rivalry with Daniel Cormier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cerrone revealed in his post-fight presser that he simply didn\u2019t have the same passion for the game anymore. He revealed that no one in his immediate circle was aware of his decision to walk away. However, he reaffirmed that he\u2019s looking forward to the next phase in his life<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t love it anymore like I used to. Last night I couldn\u2019t sleep. I was up until six in the morning laying there, and I\u2019m not going to miss those feelings, I\u2019ll tell you that. But it was good to go in there. I surprised the hell out of my team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yg1C2lZlETU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey had no idea it was coming. My wife didn\u2019t know. No one knew. It was a good secret I had. Talk about emotional, yeah, but I feel good. It\u2019s like the biggest sigh of relief I\u2019ve ever had in my life. \u2018Ooh. Aah. We\u2019re done.\u2019 Now it\u2019s off to the next chapter.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/7\/4\/23193185\/donald-cerrone-reveals-ready-retire-before-conor-mcgregor-i-was-doing-it-for-all-the-wrong-reasons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that his interest in the sport declined around early 2020 when he welcomed Conor McGregor back into the cage. \u2018Notorious\u2019 went on to defeat Cerrone via TKO in just 40 seconds back at UFC 246.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Conor McGregor (170) vs. Donald Cerrone (170)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC246?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC246<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ru0QBp6cK9\">pic.twitter.com\/Ru0QBp6cK9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jed I. Goodman \u00a9 (@jedigoodman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jedigoodman\/status\/1218320001913933824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBefore I fought McGregor, I knew,\u201d Cerrone said. \u201cThen after the McGregor fight, I took another fight and I was just going through the motions. I didn\u2019t enjoy it, didn\u2019t love it. I knew the time was soon I just had to pick the right time. So I took a lot of time off and then called my agent and said let\u2019s get a fight, and I just knew this was going to be the last one&#8230;\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC legend Donald \u2018Cowboy\u2019 Cerrone called it quits on a long, accolade-filled career following his loss to Jim Miller at UFC 276. \u2018Cowboy\u2019 was submitted at 01:32 of the second round on the preliminary card of the most recent PPV that went down in Las Vegas. Cerrone lost six of his last seven fights, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":395735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}