UFC vet Nate Quarry pondering retirement, but opportunities hard to ignore

Nate Quarry has a dry sense of humor, which makes it difficult to know when exactly he’s being serious.

After all, he still argues that his vicious knockout loss to then-champ Rich Franklin in 2005 was stopped too early. (“I may have been horizontal, …

Nate Quarry has a dry sense of humor, which makes it difficult to know when exactly he’s being serious.

After all, he still argues that his vicious knockout loss to then-champ Rich Franklin in 2005 was stopped too early. (“I may have been horizontal, but my hands were still up,” he’ll deadpan.)

But when Quarry says he’s pondering a retirement from mixed martial arts, the veteran UFC middleweight is dead serious.