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When Jimmy Flick appeared on Dana White’s Contender Series and said he was fighting to bring his family back together, he wasn’t lying.
And when the flyweight decided that goal would never be realized, and that fighting would take more from him than he wanted to give, he decided to hang up his gloves just one fight into his UFC career.
“I need to justify what I mean by that,” Flick said on
What the Heck after announcing his retirement at 30. “The UFC never did me wrong. I love everything the UFC did for me. I love the goals that I got to get to the UFC, to the person it made me.
Former UFC flyweight Jimmy Flick explained what led to him walking away from the UFC, suggesting that “fighters are too stupid to unionize.”
Flick (16-5) announced over the weekend that he is walking away from mixed martial arts and the UFC at age 30. The announcement came as a complete shock for his fans, as Flick was set to fight Francisco Figueiredo in May, this coming off the heels of an incredible UFC debut in December where he submitted Cody Durden with a flying triangle choke. Overall, Flick had won four straight fights and with a win over Figueiredo, he likely would have fought a top-15 opponent next. Instead, the flyweight has decided to hang up his gloves.
Submission wizard Jimmy Flick has his next fight.
MMA Fighting confirmed with sources with knowledge of the matchup that Flick (16-5) and Francisco Figueiredo (12-3-1, 1 NC) have agreed to meet in.
UFC 258 start time, who is fighting tonight at ‘Usman vs Burns’ in Las Vegas
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back at it with its latest pay-per-view (PPV) offering with UFC 258, which is set to go down later tonight (Sat., Feb. 13, 2021) inside UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. Streaming exclusively on ESPN+ PPV, the event will feature a Welterweight title fight between division champion, Kamaru Usman, and No. 1 contender, Gilbert Burns. In the co-headlining act, Maycee Barber takes on Alexa Grasso.
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Jimmy Flick overcame thoughts of retirement during 10-year journey to UFC
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Just looking at the past 12 months of Jimmy Flick’s career, it’s hard to imagine that he was headed anywhere else than the UFC.
The 30-year-old submission specialist went 4-0 in 2020, winning everywhere he went. He began the year winning the Freestyle Cage Fighting flyweight title in February, then scored a 38-second submission win over Greg Fischer at LFA 86. He followed that up with a dazzling third-round submission win over the previously unbeaten Nate Smith on the Contender Series in September to earn a UFC contract.