Weidman joined the UFC 311 Morning Weigh-In Show to announce that he is stepping away from competing. "Since I decided to get into this sport in 2009, the goal was to be a UFC fig

More than a decade after producing one of the most shocking knockouts in MMA history, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman announced his retirement on Friday during the UFC 311 weigh-in show.

As a young man who wanted to become a professional fighter, Chris Weidman once grabbed a random mouth guard off the floor of Ray Longo's gym in Garden City. stuck it in his mouth and entered the octagon.

Chris Weidman's UFC career was to bound to end sooner or later. An undefeated champion in his heyday, recent years could have been kinder to Weidman, who's lost more than he's won with a 3-7 record since losing the title to Luke Rockhold in 2015.