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Rampage: I’d have retired if I won the belt from Jones

Believe me I still want to retire as champion. I want to hold the belt once more. I guess if…

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Chris Palmquist
February 10, 2012 · 1 min read

Believe me I still want to retire as champion. I want to hold the belt once more. I guess if I had won that Jon Jones fight and if the Japan show wasn’t next then there’d have been a very good chance I would have retired already, he says.

It would have been a great time to bow out. But I almost certainly would have stayed around to fight in Japan anyway, to defend the belt. Then if I would have successfully defended it on this [UFC 144] show, I definitely would be retiring – and retiring a very happy man too!

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