Now that the decision has been made, Flick feels a weight off of his chest. People need to know what goes on in fighters’ lives.” And they’re way more than what fighting has ever meant to me. I’m fighting for my wife, and I’m not going to lose them. “He’s never asked me anything, and I’m not fighting for him no more,” said Flick as fought back tears. When he then opted to fight for his family, he came to the understanding that he was not going to lose his family in the same way he lost his father. When he tried reaching out to his dad to no avail, Jimmy realized that he was fighting for the wrong reasons. His dad had been a coach and mentor to him, but they had a falling out over his dad’s use of drugs. I love the money I got, but this is just to go show everybody that money doesn’t buy happiness.”Īnother thing that led to his retirement was Flick’s relationship with his father.
Fighters are too stupid to unionize, and it’ll never happen, because there’s other fighters that will fight for that money. “But what I mean by that is there’s no benefits of beating my body up no more being in the UFC. I love the goals that I got to get to the UFC, to the person it made me,” Flick said. “I need to justify what I mean by that. The UFC never did me wrong. While he made it clear that he had no beef with the promotion, he was just thinking about his family’s future. Here he explained that a big portion of his decision was due to a lack of longterm financial security or benefits for UFC fighters. However there was more to the story than that, as he explained when speaking in a recent interview. We got a brief explanation as to why Jimmy Flick opted to retire, with a post that he shared to his Instagram. He’s also the former LFA flyweight champion.A post shared by Jimmy Steven Flick Flick Explains Retirement
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Jimmy Flick (16-5) earned a first-round submission win over Cody Durden in his UFC debut after submitting Nate Smith on the Contender Series to earn a contract. According to the report, the 31-year-old could re-enter the USADA testing pool as early as Thursday and would need to be in for six months before he can compete again. I’m gonna pursue the other goals in life that make me more happy than fighting ever did.”įor quite some time it appeared his retirement would stick but late on Wednesday, MMAFighting reported Jimmy Flick will be ending his retirement. So I step in this cage tonight and telling everybody that I’m retiring from mixed martial arts. “And I’ve found out I don’t want to be the next Conor McGregor, or the next Demetrious Johnson. I want to spend time with my little girls, I want to spend time with my wife,” Flick added. I want to go to work every day, come home and be with my family.
“My wife is looking out for me, my kids are looking out for me and that’s what I want. It’s hard to explain and it does bring tears to my eyes, but the UFC is not looking out for me. ‘Where do you see yourself in the UFC?’ To be honest, everybody, the UFC is not my dream no more. A lot of people keep asking me where I see myself in 10 years. “I have three new goals in life: spend more time with my family, help my wife reach her goals, and, my third goal, is to finish the book I started over a year ago to tell my story, to tell my life, to tell everybody why I did this,” Flick said at the promotion which was captured by The Corner & The Casual on Facebook.
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