Well-traveled Irish veteran Paul
Redmond has announced his retirement from mixed martial arts
following a 24-bout professional tenure.
Redmond initially considered not making an announcement but
ultimately elected to reveal his decision on Instagram. The
35-year-old exits the sport with a 15-9 mark over the course of a
career that began in 2010.
I was just gonna fade off into the background and not mention it
but a lot of people keep asking me, ‘When am I out again next? and
I always say ‘ah soon, etc. etc.’ But the truth is you’re probably
not going to see me do my thing in an MMA cage again,” Redmond
wrote.
“I’ve thought long and hard about this, talked to the big lad
[Coach Andy Ryan], my
family, etc., and I think now is a good a time as ever to step away
from MMA. Twenty-five pro fights, a full amateur career, but the
injuries are starting to mount up every fight camp and I haven’t
made the last two fights because of them.
“Along with other stuff I have going on in my life with work, etc.,
the time to put into fight camps the way I used to and fight the
way I do isn’t there. Also losing the love of it and financially it
not making sense, there’s nothing I have left to give the
sport.”
Redmond competed for a number of notable organizations, including
the UFC, Bellator MMA, Cage Warriors, KSW and British Association
of Mixed Martial Arts. He went 0-2 in the UFC, 2-0 in Bellator and
7-1 in Cage Warriors.
He last competed at Bellator 240, where he was submitted in the
second round by Georgi
Karakhanyan in February 2020. The Team Ryano MMA product was
supposed to return at Cage Warriors 125 on June 26 but was forced
to pull out of the event due to injury.