Shane Roller
This past Friday night in Minneapolis, Minnesota lightweight fighter Shane Roller (11-7) opted to hang up his 4oz gloves following a first round submission loss to Jacob Volkmann at UFC on FX 5.
It was Roller’s fourth loss in his last five bouts, dropping matches to Michael Johnson, TJ Grant and Melvin Guillard, while winning a decision over John Alessio this past July.
Deciding to retire was “a pretty easy decision” for Roller as the 33-year old explains his reasons for hanging up his gloves on “The MMA Show with Maruo Ranallo” podcast on Wednesday.
“It was a pretty easy decision to retire at this time in my career. The UFC phoned me and told me they needed to let me go after losing to Jacob Volkmann. I felt like I gave MMA a shot and went after it. I always said I wanted to try it. I told my family I wasn’t going to be doing MMA for a long time and I gave it a shot. I wanted to be a top fighter and it wasn’t going in that direction. So when they told me they wanted to let me go, I didn’t want to get back into the UFC through the local scene, so I decided to announce my retirement.”
Also featured on the podcast were UFC lightweight Cristiano Marcello and lightweight fighter Steve Magdaleno.