Former WEC light heavyweight champion Brian Stann Retires

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Former WEC light heavyweight champion Brian Stann Retires


Rare is the fighter that leaves the sport on a win. It’s just the way things go. From Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali to Chuck Liddell and Fedor Emelianenko, combat sports have a way of making you ride off into the sunset in a vastly different way than you entered the game.

But if you’re going to leave after a bout in which your hand wasn’t raised at the end, you would probably want to go out like Brian Stann, who announced his retirement on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour Thursday at the age of 32. "I leave taking more from mixed martial arts than I ever gave," he said on the show.

In March, the former WEC champion returned to the light heavyweight division after a stint at 185 pounds to meet Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva. For the next nine minutes and eight seconds, it was a thrill ride of epic proportions at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan as the two sluggers did what they did best, giving and taking haymakers from all angles. When it was over, “The Axe Murderer” Silva emerged victorious, but Stann’s reputation took no hit at all. In fact, his profile may have been raised even higher in defeat.

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