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While some MMA fans may have been surprised and dismayed to hear that UFC veteran Nate Quarry is considering retirement, one man who isn’t so shocked is Jorge Rivera, who handed Quarry his most recent loss at a UFC Fight Night event back in March.
“I understand. I get it,” Rivera told MMA Fighting on Tuesday. “You know, you can only go so long. I’m sure he has plans with his life, and you only want to take so many beatings. You only want to suffer so much, because there’s life after fighting, man. Hopefully there’s a good, long life after fighting.”
Quarry, who required facial reconstructive surgery to put thirteen screws and a titanium mesh in his cheek after a particularly brutal TKO loss to Rivera, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he wasn’t completely certain he’d ever fight again.