Brian Stann officially retires from MMA

Should have known after yesterdays news of him moving to FOX broadcasting.
https://ninjasplace.forumotion.net/t21167-brian-stann-will-be-doing-work-for-fox-during-the-2014-college-football-season

http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/07/ufc-middleweight-brian-stann-retires-from-mma-to-focus-on-broadcasting

Stann will now focus his career on broadcasting and his family. On Wednesday, FOX Sports announced the Atlanta-area resident is part of the new Atlantic Coast Conference football crew for FOX Sports South. Since the UFC's broadcast deal with FOX began in 2012, Stann has been active as an analyst for both FOX and FUEL TV's pre- and post-fight UFC event coverage.

"Yesterday, news broke that I'm going to be branching out and doing some college football," Stann said on the show. "But a couple months ago, I had made the decision and just wasn't sure when I would announce it, that I was no longer going to continue fighting. So I wanted to use this opportunity to say thank you. The relationships and experiences I've gotten from fans and fellow fighters have honestly made me a much better person. I leave fighting having taken more from fighting I have ever gave."

Stann said a desire to devote more time to his family helped him come to the decision.

"There's a lot of reasons that have caused me to retire from the sport," he told Helwani. "But really for me, it's the best thing for me, and more importantly for my family right now. I'm still going to be involved as much as the UFC will allow me to be in the UFC, and continuing to be an ambassador for the sport. But as far as competing anymore, as sad as it makes me, it's not the best thing for me as a husband and a father – which by far is the most important thing to me. I sacrificed more than I gained, and it's time for me to focus on my family."

Stann, who attended the Naval Academy and played linebacker on the football team, started his pro MMA career in 2006. As a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, his tours of duty included time in Iraq, where his service during "Operation Matador" earned him the nation's third-highest military honor – the Silver Star.

He had a fun run. Good luck to him.


Cereal Question, how long before he is inducted into the UFC HOF?

GDPofDRC wrote:

He had a fun run.  Good luck to him.  


Cereal Question, how long before he is inducted into the UFC HOF?

He will come back to fight Tim Kennedy in a fight for the troops card midway through 2014. Calling it now.

nice to go out against Wand, and not play it safe on top of it

Cu Bu wrote:

nice to go out against Wand, and not play it safe on top of it

One of the most memorable fights I have seen in sometime. That is a classic I still have on my DVR. If I could only have 10 fights on a DVD, that fight would make the cut.

OU wrote:

Cu Bu wrote:

nice to go out against Wand, and not play it safe on top of it

One of the most memorable fights I have seen in sometime. That is a classic I still have on my DVR. If I could only have 10 fights on a DVD, that fight would make the cut.

 light bulb!

GDPofDRC wrote:

OU wrote:

Cu Bu wrote:

nice to go out against Wand, and not play it safe on top of it

One of the most memorable fights I have seen in sometime. That is a classic I still have on my DVR. If I could only have 10 fights on a DVD, that fight would make the cut.

 light bulb!

Yeah you could spin that off a few different ways.

I'm sure FOX is going to pay him better the UFC would anyways.

GDPofDRC wrote:

I'm sure FOX is going to pay him better the UFC would anyways.

You sure? To do Navy vs Hawaii?

He's doing ACC games

bobbitt15 wrote:

He's doing ACC games

Yeah I'm sure he will be there for that massive UNC vs Duke football game everyone loves...

he made 69k last year.  Not hard to imagine him making that in this next fall alone from FOX.

GDPofDRC wrote:

he made 69k last year.  Not hard to imagine him making that in this next fall alone from FOX.

Hard to see him making much more.