Following his loss to CB Dolloway at UFC 146 Saturday night, middleweight Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller has decided to call it a career & retire from the sport of MMA.
Miller told Ariel Helwani on the MMA Hour that he will be hanging up his gloves.

“I said I would, so I am. I’m done for right now.

I don’t have the need to super-impress one person in particular and make them happy. I can focus on making myself happy. I don’t have the pressures of a commissioner chasing me around with a piss cup. I don’t have the pressures of everybody verbally abusing me for everyone one of my missteps via social media. I feel like a weight is lifted.

Every fighter gives the same answer when they say they’re retired. Pretty much every fighter says ‘I’m retired until I need money.’ I’m a pretty smart dude, I have other avenues open to me.

Sometimes you rub people the wrong way. When you’re in charge of a multinational corporation and you kind of don’t like someone it’s pretty easy to just swat me.

Don’t cry for me, Argentina. I kinda knew what I was getting into when I was 17. I’m not a young guy, not for this sport. I’m an old-ass man, maybe I should look into that TRT, maybe that would help me out.

I’ve been abusing myself for 12 years now. It’s my job. I can’t cry about it. I knew over the years, this knee got hurt, that knee got hurt, I’ve snapped my nose a million times, I cracked my skull. I mean, c’mon. I knew what I was doing to myself. I don’t want to die without any scars. I want to live life, and I want to have these adventures, and I want to be that old-ass man with a million stories to tell, if I can make it to that old-ass man status.”