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Donald Cerrone’s MMA retirement appears to be over.
“Cowboy” called it a career after a second-round submission loss to Jim Miller at UFC 276 in July 2022 — his sixth consecutive loss in the octagon. Now, after 48 overall appearances in the UFC and WEC, and 55 fights total, Cerrone says he’s coming out of retirement with the hopes of getting to 50 overall appearances for the Zuffa brand.
Check out Cerrone’s announcement in the video below.
“I want to go back [to the UFC] and get two more fights,” Cerrone said. “When I retired, I told you I was getting my hair done and getting on steroids.
“The number 50 has been sitting on my mind for a while.”
Cerrone says he’s been working with a company and taking TRT, and a “bunch of peptides” for the last couple of years, but is now getting ready to get off of those in order to get back into the UFC drug-testing pool.
“For all you people who are like, ‘Oh, what if you get on it, you can’t ever come off?’ Well, I now have to come off and piss clean.”
The one-time UFC title challenger says he plans to “fight in a few months.” Following his retirement, Cerrone was inducted into the 2023 class of the UFC Hall of Fame. The 41-year-old holds a number of spots in the record books, including the most combined UFC/WEC post-fight bonuses with 23.