Cub Swanson hasn’t decided whether or not he’s going to retire from fighting, but if his knockout win at UFC Tampa really is the end of his career, he’s more than happy with what he’s accomplished.
Heading into his co-main event fight against Billy Quarantillo this past weekend, the 41-year-old veteran teased he was probably going to hang up his gloves sooner rather than later. Following another Fight of the Night performance capped off by a stunning third-round knockout, Swanson recognizes that he probably couldn’t write a better conclusion to his career; still, he’s not quite ready to make that call just yet.
“It really is [the perfect ending],” Swanson told MMA Fighting. “I feel the opposite of what people are saying. With an ending like that, it makes it even harder to say yeah, maybe I’ll do another one because that made me happy. I feel less of an urge to jump right back in there because that’s the other thing, people don’t understand how stressful fighting is.
“I stress about waking up the next day and how I feel. Everyone texted me, my close friends and family are texting me the next day, ‘How are you feeling?’ I said, ’41.’ I feel it the next day. I’m very happy how things played out and we’ll see what happens.”
Cub Swanson proud of longevity if this really is the end: ‘When I first started fighting, the D’Arce didn’t exist’ - MMA Fighting
