10 Most Emotional Retirements in MMA History 

Stephen Hummel facts.

Such a noble gesture from the Gangster. Still undefeated and undisputed.

No one retires on top except your ace, C.P.

Stephen Hummel It still frustrates me how everyone mispronunciations his name. LordLavaGodKing P. SoWin.

@@ahmeddjeghri6879 best comment ever

Same that hit me hard

Wow

Well, he won against Filio who then sent him the belt. I think he did well enough to make his father proud.

💉💉💉

Im not even a chael fan and it got me.

Easier said than done

@@Baker4life777 tested positive after

Can you imagine had Paulo Filo not missed weight...Chael wouldve been a World Champ a long time ago.

@@scottvermiliion927 yea, that was kind of bullshit. How are you gonna take the title opportunity away because the champ missed weight. Makes no sense....every champ should just miss weight then and be like...oops sorry. I can understand when the challenger does, Like Yoel did, what two times?

Do you even know how long 89 seconds in the cage is? Shit even in sparring 89 seconds is eternity, just rolling for 89 seconds seems like 15 min. Sounds crazy but even 10 seconds feels like 5 min.

Dana'll spil on "Golden Boy"s grave

Chuck never let go of his itch to fight and compete, and it was disgraceful how Oscar de la Hoya and Tito Ortiz took advantage of and exploited that from Chuck to make some cash. Its understandable why Dana White was pissed off.

Cross dresser La Hoya 😂😂 he’s a POS

@@jessicaj8564 Oscar de la coke head.

Made me tear up a little

I hope he knows everyone will remember him as the guy that dominated Prime Anderson Silva.

A very real moment by a guy who played a character. That one had me close to tearing up...he tried. What else can you say? He was a legit fighters fighter, even though he'll go down as a guy more known for his antics. Very tough guy. Only guy I've ever seen dominate silva the way he did, even though he took the L.

The first Silva sonnen fight was the first UFC event I saw. I went with a buddy to a small pub, the fight was completely nuts. Chael somersaulting cartwheeling out the foot grab, or totally reversing a Silva mount into a spear into the mat, the ear clapping and everything. My bud said hed never seen Silva so dominated, but it looked to me like he was holding on and letting chael wear down. Then Silva fell to start the 5th and I thought so much for that. Only for chael to get caught at the very last. I think chael was at his very best that night, but like the Jon Jones fight he ends up a heartbeat away from the gold.

I'm brazilian and I always cheered for Chael (specially against Anderson Silva). The majority of my friends (and the average brazilians) didn't get his irony and took all trash talk for serious. But when Chael did TUF Brazil, everyone could see what he really is. And one time, at a brazilian TV show, a reporter tried to make a joke giving a brazilian flag to him. Look what he said and done about it (3:09): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xt_gRYev3yg.html In another TUF edition we can see that Chael really cares about his coachees ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6eIJilEdVQY.html

@@JRF1004 Why would they remember him for that? As soon as he couldn’t use PEDs anymore, he got destroyed, as still happened in the first fight.

That was a dick move to whoever asked that question

Same

That hurts man.

😂😂😂😂😂👍

Yeah man that was rough and beautiful at the same time. Chael is a special guy.

he popped a few times for steroids, if you cheat in combat sports you deserve nothing.

life is hard. I've never heard of anyone ever "deserving" something....

@AK 47 not a single min

@@Cocksucker7117 yeah yeah shut up about, everyone does it dude

@@Cocksucker7117 yeah he wasn’t facing the two biggest steroid cheats in the sport with Jon and Anderson or anything

Not to mention, he beat the defending WEC champ but for some reason wasn’t eligible for the title because the champ missed weight. Make no mistake, chael was the WEC middleweight champ

Bruh he doesnt won the world champ because he is the WORLD

Growing old sucks and you know every day your less and less, if I could only turn back time

dennis bryan Time flies don’t it?

@@SliceofBread123 It does

@@dennisbryan7522 the cup is not half full or half empty. the cup is a cup.

Oh this is the losers lounge sorry.

My favourite fighter of all time. Especially being from the UK, he’s a hero of mine

Even uncle Chael says bisping is one of the baddest mfrs on the planet

No tougher man has graced the octagon

From sleeping in his car to take fights to on top of the world from taking fights and humble all the way, not many cut from that cloth.

Vitor belfort kicked him so hard he lost his eye

Gaetano Leonardo the one and only Brother 👊

Same

My life motto.

@@mcnall34 is the bad guy chael sonnen nickname?

@@darkrayane9298 it’s one of them yes.

Yeah I bet 😭💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

No you weren't cus I was there and I didn't see you

@@Demolisher375 got his ass

Gay

Don't worry man, in my mind he did win the WEC middleweight title. The champion missed weight, he was over the limit by a little bit but Chael STILL beat him and they didn't give him the belt. He won a title, just not on paper.

Chael Sonnen is the uncrowded WEC Middle Weight Champion. Zuffa could easily retcon give him that recognition as they credited Duane ludwig with the fastest KO despite the Commission's time recorded

casual complaints He was never champ lost both times.

casual complaints 17 losses journeyman. Name one good Chael Sonnen win. Lol you cant he sucked ass.

ScubaSteve He mauled Silva but still tapped therefore he lost.

Thought he was ona come down or mush mouth. It's actually annoying to listen to

I know man I was almost like is this Tommy?

@John Denver true, maybe he's dying

He changed his inflection for the weight of the piece. Him cracking jokes at high volume would be inappropriate.

Yeah the.bitch narrator was crying 😢. Very cringe

I always got a kick out of Titos retardation, but that knockout made me hate him. He gloated like it meant something. Absolute coward

I always considered prime Tito to be a lesser fighter than prime Chuck, unfortunately for him Tito aged far better than Chuck and was able to go much more than Liddell, I always get sad when I see how De La Hoya and Ortiz coaxed him out of retirement

The best hands in the history of mma is actually an active heavyweight named Pavlovich. His hands are incredibly powerful but also highly technical and with great speed for his size and precise accuracy. Much like Chuck had himself.

He retired because he sucked.

Black African Nigga you obviously haven’t watched him fight, still the only person to absolutely beat the hell out of Anderson Silva.

I mean, with arms like those and the skills he learned growing up on the mean streets of West Linn, there really was no one in the past, present or future that would pose a challenge to the American Gangster.

Ben Currier If it wasn’t for that Silvaroid fight he’d be irrelevant. Juiced to the gills coming into that fight and still couldn’t do it. And let’s not forget he was a journeyman with 17 losses that was never champ and got his ass kicked by everyone. Lol those are the type of guys Silva beat double digit losses journeyman’s.

@@SkeatKenworth Yeah, then your boy got torched by Weidman...because he was acting like a black African nigga.

This and the end of „Hooligans“

I did, The Sonnen entry hurt a bit.

I know I did

Emotional shit.i hate and love these videos at the same time.

@Miklo screw you fuckin casual

He had 2 one wasnt working though

He still has 2 eyes, but he has almost complete blindness in the damaged one, totally f**King up his depth perception, probably the worst thing to happen too a fighter.. 😕👎

@@Del-Blanco-Diablo no he’s missing an eye he has literally done a video of him taking out his glass eye

@@Cheesusrice69222 so if one wasn't working then he fought with only one...your statement makes no sense. His right eye is 100% shot/blind.

@@curtharakaly4620 I was being condescending

it wasn't sad but it just felt like a bitter ending to a "fairy-tale story". i mean one minute you're the champion after basically a full decade of working your ass off and in the matter of 2 matches , you get choked out , lose your belt and get knocked out. it just didn't seem right considering what he went through in his career

@@muhdiqbal1347he thing is that the run up to the title is what most champions in MMA are evaluated on become so few champions ever get more than a single defense. And his career up to the title was amazing. And he now is a beloved commentator.

You're so naive

It's not like he can't read it as usual if he wanted to. You think the script is tearing him up so bad he can't control himself? Get outta here m8. He's done this for a long time and did this one in a fitting style.

Y’all are some real cunts replying to this

Michael N for real

I honestly thought the serious tone was super odd to hear in his voice for the whole video, especially at the end when he switches back to his regular voice when shouting out Tom the editor.

Never been knocked out

John Smith never lost a single round

Thomas Harding Yeah Chael’s career in MMA ain’t over yet, the guy covers the sport probably better than anyone, the ‘MMA journalists’ included except MAYBE Ariel Helwani, and still appears in the UFC a lot which I’m really glad about. He’s a legend and one of my favourites.

He's a great commentator and sooo funny to AF 💯

Paulo Filho missed weight and after they changed the rules saying the challenger can still win the belt. Bad guy changed the sport for the better

Well he REALLY cant top it now

It wasn’t embarrassing he was a mma fighter the rules are insanely different than boxing

@@BasketballWithJacoby yep and nobody really cares about that fight.. I don't see askren in a different light since he lost to Jake.. I don't give a fuck bout that scripted fight

@@Cel2333 it’s not scripted it’s just the ref called it off when he shouldn’t have

Bro😂😂

chuck liddel would spar with tito ortiz and knock him out and would be an A**hole all the time so when i saw the fight i laughed. Just like justin gaethje told tony ferguson, being an a**hole gets you nowhere

@@barsieee But battering another who's well past their prime and bested you twice, yet still pretending your the better fighter after is an achievement?

@@hunterhudson4577 just the karma aspect of it

@@hunterhudson4577 karma....I've done combat sports my whole life and yes..karma is a big thing..if you're an asshole in the gym you'll get treated like an asshole and the second an opportunity opens and someone wants to teach you a lesson it'll happen. Be humble and always be polite. It'll get you far. I have keys others who are pros who go into gyms knocking people out weekly....those people usually have the worst karma and eat humble pie harder than most.

It was nice seeing tito get fd by anderson recently

S F my comment literally flew over your head mate....smdh

Dude, don't do that to me. Had half a heart attack.

HittokiriBatosai it’s okay I got a shoulder you can cry on when it happens

"It was what it was" :,(

"It was what it was"

Chael never retired. He was worried he'd kill some one with a quip.

Oh yeah so dangerous the juicer . Lol loser

He was the only fighter worthy of beating Anderson at the time. Not lucky Christopher. Everyone else didnt have the ability and/or were too scared.

@@luciuspl1140 How dare you. And everyone was juicing at that time stoopid.

Watch his fight against Anderson Silva

Brilliant!

Man you deluded Chael fans just can't take a break from your sad fantasy world for only a single minute right??? Your boy never realized his full potential, beaten by his biggest rivals and emotionally retired holding back tears. Deal with it!!!

@@DragonHeart613 Do you know what a joke is?

@@DragonHeart613 The only potential Chael failed to meet was that he could never beat the best fighter of all time because he was too busy being the greatest fighter ever.

@@DragonHeart613 fuck u asshole

Did that guy really ask him that?

@@franciscofrias4627 yep. Total chode move

@@ethanking4954 Yeah man, I just looked up the clip... what a fucking douchebag, him and ariel are right for eachother.

Wow that changed my perception on Brett quite a bit.

@@alphacraig2001 He's a journalist, you shouldn't have a good opinion of him to begin with.

K Kimber Chael sorta did... He talks about Colby Covington and giving him pages out of his book.. Colby just isn't anywhere near as good as Chael at selling it

Colby is a better fighter overall than king Chael

Erling Strand Iversen can’t believe you said something like that!!! Colby is awful compared to Chael, who isn’t just king but GOAT of the universe!!

Erling Strand Iversen But seriously though Chael is far better than Colby lol

@@erlingstrandiversen2826 Thats uncle Chael to you boy

Prime cro cop would be the person I would least like to fight. Dude was deadly and humble

Yea for a guy as cold as crocop to see him choked up really pulled at my heartstrings.

Crocop and Hunt old K1 fighters they don't make them like that now 💯

Him having a stroke after beating Nelson is crazy.

@@toakasi6425 mark hunt was a boss. One hitter quitter and then walk away

I was thinking the same thing. After that Gaethje loss and the McGregor loss it's not looking like he can compete at the highest level anymore. He seems to be turning into the fighter you have to get past to get into that elite level. No doubt Cerrone is arguably one of the best in the welterweights, but he has been struggling

Too much fighting ITS not good man, cowboy should retire!

@@skullcow9991 you mean lightweights, not really one of the best welterweights

People were already calling him a gatekeeper a few years ago. 😣

Pettis got submitted by someone who just now entered the rankings. Cowboy has only lost to people in the top 3 of their division in 2 years. Cowboy will be fine. You guys move on way too fast. You see a few losses and assume it's over. They were the best of the best. Literally top level competition. Ferguson, McGregor, Gaethje, Edwards. Pettis not so much. Yall gotta calm down.

And adding onto that the embarrassing incidents of bar brawling (and losing) and, sadly, just getting hammered by any opponent he fought. So sad for someone with so much potential.

@@ryanthompson1244 embarrassing for dana to keep giving him fights as well. he should have saved BJ from himself

@DEUS VULT of course man I mean people are already starting to crap on Habib for retiring but this video tells it all why it's a good idea to leave the sport or the sport will leave you

hi Peter

John Bryan you really think tony can beat Conor? Only way he beats Conor is if he goes to the ground. Other than that he would get destroyed

Why its not like he ever lost a fight

@@Cheesusrice69222 yep. He never did.

@@Cheesusrice69222 nope undefeated, undisputed

Very true, only two fighters stood in his way to become the GOAT of those respective weight classes (as well as THE GOAT). He failed to reach that status in LHW, if he loses to Stipe, he'll fail to reach that status once again.

@@MrHu58 I disagree, he was a two-divisional champion which puts him on a very short list. It's not like he came up short over and over again like, for example, Chael Sonnen.

@@shko-mi I don't think Notorius pickle is wrong . . . nor did I interpret his post to imply that Cormier isn't in an upper echelon of accomplished fighters. He simply is saying that no one will think of him as the GOAT of the LHW division due to his losses against Jones, and the outcome of his next heavyweight fight with Stipe will determine his status as GOAT in HW.

@Hms Yeah. I would have liked to have seen him get a nice big payday, a win, and ride off into the sunset. As much as I love him and Stipe, their trilogy and their injuries/recovery time is a big stall on the division. The age of Ngannou is a comin'.

@Hms Haha, probably not. The list is about sad retirements. Jones will fuck up so bad one day that he will be jailed and barred from competing.

I just saw an old Chael interview after UFC 117 that he fought Pablo with a broken arm

Lucius Pl he never actually had a fight they were all just one sided beat downs and Cheal was swinging the hammer.

Lucius Pl you’re something else you🤣

Lucius Pl Buddy you’re so dumb Chael is undefeated and undisputed it looked like a 300 pound man beating on kindergarteners

@@luciuspl1140 are you dumb? Chael is obviously the greatest fighter of all time by far! Don't even disrespect uncle chael like that

Lucius Pl Man he let Jon win, he could’ve just make it to round 2 because he broke his leg with the biggest arms in the sport, then let Tito survive to tell the story and machida should be thankful that his knee was able to absorb that headbutt, undefeated Chael never lost a round GOAT

What are you talking about he sucked and he always did and the only time he did good was when he was on the juice. Wtf lol stood a chance wtf. Let the real fans talked.

@@luciuspl1140 the real fans are talking.

@@luciuspl1140 He never lost a round. The man is undefeated. Chael is probably the most dangerous man in the Northern Hemisphere...

@@Suave121 I know wwe is that way sir please leave.

@broootal warp exactly! People need to realise chael is the GOAT!

It's just an emotional video. He's not monotone at all. You can hear little fluctuations in his voice. Dude cares about these guys. He's just sad.

Tommy's never doing his show again and that's sadder than these retirements

@@binkleyme I think that's a matter for the listener to interpret. I heard it as a bit detached, but I'm hearing people are feeling the sadness. What I should say is that it was monotone for my tastes relative to what he normally puts out in a voice over. I'm glad you enjoyed it because I did too :)

@@mikesantini65 what? that better be untrue, I actual watch this channel specifically because he uploads here more than he does TTHS

@@LesageSinging yea I just checked he has a vid up about Jon Jones but the vid before is from 2019

Feel bad that you have like 200k subs and 0 likes on your comment?

Ben Askren getting slammed on his head by Robbie Lawler rd 1 and still ends up winning the fight on a fluke choke

@@robbiecx9351 Wasn't really a fluke tho mate

CM Punk

ok

The mans not active I can’t get attached to him it wouldn’t make a difference to me honestly

@@MMA_Ruskie I'm specifically thinking of the retirement speech (that's on me for not specifying it)

He gets hurt more than 10 fighters put together I feel bad for him

He was the man who beat Jones and got robbed. That's the saddest part.

@@Sk8boardpsych0 Cruz not Reyes

It was worse in the post-fight interview ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8E63uF_1Mes.html 2:22 ^^

But got so far, in the end it doesn't even matter

He had to fall to lose it all

He put his trust, in you. Pushed as far as he could go. And for all of this, there’s only one thing you should know...

It is particularly sad as twice he arguably should’ve held a title. I thought he definitely beat comier and yet he never got the title

At least he came back

I like the ko

For sure....him and Chael

Never lost a round, never lost a fight, The women's pet, the men's regret, the guy with the biggest arms, the greatest charm and the bad guy that does the most harm...😢

MG16NCP you’re deluded. he’s never lost a round.

@MG16NCP you're the delusional one who thinks the great Chael p ever lost, the p stands for greatness btw

@MG16NCP Never lost a second, go back to special school please.

@MG16NCP wait, I thought Artim was the only fighter to retain that title?

I'm a simple man, I see this comment format, I use it over and over again

@@JG-ge3ui Also, he was saying that towards the end of his career he was having massive problems with his hip (hence the hip replacement), stuff like he was super stiff and could hardly move without pain which is why he chose to retire at that point

Not with his Striking...not in the UFC.

I've never watched an askren fight, that ground and pound was more brutal than expected

@@scottvermiliion927 he beat Diego fucking Lima, a guy I think would have a better chance against Kamaru than any other welterweight in the UFC.

@@nelstar4676 Douglas Lima

@@PuttBlug69 well now we feel even worse

Me too mate, me too

This comment didn't age well..

Mans was a great fighter it’s just because ONE isn’t very popular

@@liamwelsh4665 Probably top 3 best pure wrestlers in MMA ever

MG16NCP for like a year or so

Kevin Lee just fought Oliveira a month ago

I don't think people are getting this

@@isaacbolter9000 explain please lol

@@ericherstedt3217 watch The Greatest Uncle in history

Buck.... It affected many

Anthony Johnson is still fighting lol

@quotetheraven90 bro what😂

@@kroniclemma he came out of retirement recently