Jack Shore, UFC Edmonton official weigh-in Credit score: Jay Anderson/Cageside Press
Earlier this morning, Jack Shore took to social media to announce he’d be retiring from competitors within the sport of MMA.
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Shore (17-3) made his UFC debut in 2019 at solely 24 years of age. He was a highly-touted, undefeated Cage Warriors bantamweight champion. Together with Mason Jones and Cory McKenna, he was the face of the brand new era of Whales MMA. He stayed undefeated till July of 2022, when Ricky Simón submitted him. A transfer to featherweight noticed him go 1-2 with back-to-back losses in 2024. With out but realizing he was retiring, the elimination from the UFC roster got here as a shock, as a result of quite a lot of followers nonetheless felt like he had nice potential regardless of the current outcomes.
Now 29, turning 30 in February, Shore wrote in his Instagram submit that combating was his sole focus throughout his 20s, however that isn’t the case anymore. He added “I always promised myself when I was [mentally] checked out I would retire from the sport rather than the sport retire me”, a mature mentality quite a lot of followers want extra fighters would undertake.
Jack Shore, who educated at his father’s health club (Shore Blended Martial Arts), will now make a full time transfer to teaching to assist foster the following era of Welsh fighters.
