Italian fighter Alessio Di Chirico says he’s hanging up the gloves after a loss this previous Saturday in Paris.
Di Chirico (13-7 MMA, 4-7 UFC) was stopped by Roman Kopylov (9-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC) with a on the main card at UFC Fight Night 209 at Accor Arena. The event was the UFC’s debut in France.
The loss was the middleweight’s fifth in his previous six fights courting again slightly greater than three years. Di Chirico posted his retirement announcement on his Twitter account.
“I wrote this message a whole bunch of occasions, scorching blooded, chilly blooded, alone, after speaking about it with the individuals I like and each model bought me crying.
“This can be a message to all my followers: … Sadly, it was not sufficient. Sadly I gave you one other defeat.
“I can’t take into consideration how laborious the individuals who actually love me suffered for me and with me all through my profession, I’m sorry for each one who simply cared about me even when we don’t know one another, I’m so grateful.
“I believe it’s time to maneuver to a different chapter in my life.
“I do know that’s not getting back from there, I do know I’ll miss it so badly. I do know it’s the fitting time to cease. …”
— Alessio ‘Manzo’ Di Chirico (@ManzoDiChirico) September 6, 2022
The 32-year-old Di Chirico began his professional profession 9-0 and got here to the UFC in 2016. His promotional debut was a call loss to Bojan Velickovic in Croatia. He rebounded with a break up name win over Garreth McLellan later that 12 months, however was stopped for the primary time in his profession when Eric Spicely submitted him in January 2017.
Issues gave the impression to be getting into the fitting path after that, although. Following a layoff of practically a 12 months, Di Chirico knocked out Oluwale Bamgbose in Canada and picked up his first UFC post-fight bonus verify. He adopted that win up with a break up choice over Julian Marquez in July 2018.
However after a layoff of practically one other 12 months, his struggles started. Di Chirico dropped three straight choices to Kevin Holland, Makhmud Muradov and Zak Cummings.
Along with his UFC profession doubtlessly in jeopardy, he pulled off a stunner when he knocked out Joaquin Buckley with a bonus-winning head kick in January 2021 in Abu Dhabi – only a few months after Buckley had himself gone viral with a spinning again kick win.
That, nonetheless, will stand as Di Chirico’s last win for now. In August 2021, he was knocked out in simply 17 seconds by Abdul Razak Alhassan, and after a yearlong layoff he had his knockout loss to Kopylov in Paris.
