{"id":432925,"date":"2023-04-09T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432925"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:57:06","slug":"jorge-masvidal-retires-at-ufc-287","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jorge-masvidal-retires-at-ufc-287\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal retires at UFC 287"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal announced his exit from MMA after losing to Gilbert Burns on Saturday in his hometown Miami at UFC 287.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel the same when I get in here anymore, it\u2019s been 20 long years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal calls it a career in his hometown. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC287?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UFC287<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1i2v5SJo4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/G1i2v5SJo4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1644920712786763776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jorge lost after a unanimous decision, his 4<sup>th<\/sup> defeat in a row in UFC. The other fights he was beaten were again in the welterweight division \u2013 twice against Kamaru Usman for the title and from Colby Covington a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love everybody here,&#8221; said Jorge, 38, who quits with 35 victories and 17 losses. &#8220;This is where I started my career. It&#8217;s been a long 20 years, 50-some fights. Sometimes your favorite basketball player doesn&#8217;t have that 3-pointer anymore. Your favorite quarterback loses that rifle. I don&#8217;t feel the same when I get in here no more. It&#8217;s been 20 long years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal was also part of Bellator and Strikeforce before joining the UFC and made his first fight in the organization in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal announced his exit from MMA after losing to Gilbert Burns on Saturday in his hometown Miami at UFC 287. \u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432928,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18148,17286],"news_category":[16710,14084],"gn_keywords":[18699,1093,18691],"acf":{"announce":"One of the most popular UFC stars called it a career.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432927,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432925\/revisions\/432927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432925"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432925"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}