{"id":1981,"date":"2023-08-21T00:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2023-08-21T22:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:31:55","slug":"dana-white-asks-chris-weidman-to-retire-after-his-expiration-please-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/dana-white-asks-chris-weidman-to-retire-after-his-expiration-please-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Asks Chris Weidman to Retire After His Expiration?! \u2018Please retire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC President Dana White wants former middleweight champion Chris Weidman to retire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately for him, Weidman lost by unanimous decision having been dominated for the entirety of the match. At the post-fight press conference, UFC president Dana White called on the former middleweight champion to retire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC 292 was Weidman&#8217;s return fight after more than two years away from the sport. \u00a0In his last outing, at UFC 261 in April 2021, Weidman snapped his leg throwing a leg kick at his opponent Uriah Hall. \u00a0It was a gruesome injury that required several surgeries. \u00a0He also saw setback in his recovery due to repeated infections.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x6ikm8r x10wlt62\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100095099064887%2Fvideos%2F123496554169266%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI love Chris Weidman. I adore his family. And I think he should retire,\u201d White told reporters. \u201cWe spoke to Dr Davidson, and he thinks he tore some ligaments. You know, the guy just came back from a horrendous injury, and the passing of time isn&#8217;t good, especially if you&#8217;re a professional athlete. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_89918\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kaTr6nOn6o8?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about the possibility of offering Chris Weidman a final farewell fight, White still maintained his position on the retirement of the &#8216;All-American&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDepending on the damage to the knee, we are potentially talking about another year of recovery. So I would say, &#8216;Chris, I love you. Please retire. concluded White.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now 39, Weidman has beaten Anderson Silva twice. He made three successful title defenses as the -84kg champion, and also earned three Fight of the Night bonuses and four Performance of the Night bonuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White wants former middleweight champion Chris Weidman to retire. Unfortunately for him, Weidman lost by unanimous decision having been dominated for the entirety of the match. At the post-fight press conference, UFC president Dana White called on the former middleweight champion to retire. UFC 292 was Weidman&#8217;s return fight after more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ufc-news","8":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}