{"id":138,"date":"2022-09-22T18:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=138"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:06:28","slug":"holland-claims-to-be-retired-before-30-following-ufc-279-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/holland-claims-to-be-retired-before-30-following-ufc-279-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland Claims To Be \u201cRetired Before 30\u201d Following UFC 279 Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what would certainly be a surprising turn of events,\u00a0<a title=\"UFC News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/news\/ufc\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ail=\"118275\">UFC<\/a>\u00a0welterweight Kevin Holland has appeared to hint at a possible retirement from mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Holland returned to form through a drop to 170 pounds following defeats to Marvin Vettori and Derek Brunson at middleweight. After stopping both Alex Oliveira and Tim Means, \u201cTrailblazer\u201d was booked against Daniel Rodriguez at\u00a0this month\u2019s UFC 279 pay-per-view.<\/p>\n<p>But the entertaining 29-year-old pulled the short straw when planned headliner\u00a0Khamzat Chimaev\u00a0missed weight. Having weighed in for a 180-pound catchweight contest, Holland was asked to meet \u201cBorz\u201d in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p>Having accepted his part on the revised card, Holland became Chimaev\u2019s latest victim, with the Chechen born-Swede\u00a0extending his perfect record to 12-0 with a first-round D\u2019Arce choke submission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DOMINATION FROM THE SECONDS INTO THE FIGHT \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC279?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC279<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAnAhymZGq\">pic.twitter.com\/LAnAhymZGq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC (@ufc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc\/status\/1568810044451430402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath, Holland outlined his hopes to rebound before the end of the year, naming a re-arranged clash with \u201cD-Rod\u201d or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/2022\/09\/holland-thompson-says-my-name-but-ignores-dms\/\" data-mil=\"118275\">a much-called for date in the cage with Stephen Thompson<\/a>\u00a0as options.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mmane-e8fe69ade7265b557a43117568005d93\" class=\"mmane-e8fe69ade7265b557a43117568005d93 mmane-content-4\"><\/div>\n<p>But having seen reports of Rodriguez having another opponent lined up, Holland has hinted towards retirement on social media.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-holland-got-paid-i-m-out\">Holland: \u201cGot Paid, I\u2019m Out\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, Holland took to social media, first seemingly expressing frustration at reports of Daniel Rodriguez and Neil Magny squaring off next month.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to UFC 279, Holland expressed his desire to fight four or five times every year in\u00a0an interview with MMA Fighting, suggesting that if he couldn\u2019t accomplish that level of activity, he may as well retire.<\/p>\n<p>In a story, he wrote, \u201cLol, (didn\u2019t) I just ask for this scrap, that\u2019s wild,\u201d perhaps believing he was owed the re-arranged matchup with the hard-hitting welterweight given that he agreed to face Chimaev on a day\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, he uploaded a post that hinted at a retirement from MMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what would certainly be a surprising turn of events,\u00a0UFC\u00a0welterweight Kevin Holland has appeared to hint at a possible retirement from mixed martial arts. This year, Holland returned to form through a drop to 170 pounds following defeats to Marvin Vettori and Derek Brunson at middleweight. After stopping both Alex Oliveira and Tim Means, \u201cTrailblazer\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}