Dana White: If Nog lost I would have given him the retirement talk

“With the whole retirement thing for Big Nog, what happens is, when you look at a guy throughout his career, and Chuck Liddell went through the same thing, you could hit Chuck Liddell with a baseball bat when he was younger in his career and the guy never got rocked or hurt. And Nogueira was that same way. If you looked back throughout his career how many wars this guy has been in, the Crocop fight, all the wars this guy has been in, how much punishment he used to take, now he gets hit and he gets hurt a lot easier. That’s what you look at in something like that.

“Yes, if he lost, he and I would have been having a discussion.”