Have you ever stopped MMA - or know anyone who has?

I'm interested to talk to someone who may have fallen out of love with mixed martial arts at any point. There seems to be a trend in that fighting and training mixed martial arts is so insanely addictive - making you feel invincible - and very few fighters at any level seem to stop before being forced to stop due to injury etc. Was wondering if anyone had any evidence to prove otherwise?

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@HarryRobbo

I never really took up combat sports as a kid (not outside of the boxing we learnt at school anyway) but one of my mates did Karate from about 5 up until he was about 13 or 14 when he stopped because he wanted to dedicate more time on his other hobbies that he was more passionate about (mainly car mechanics). To be fair, this seemed to work out for him as he's a mechanic now and can still throw some nasty kicks.

I stopped some years ago. MMA training is hard on the body. Always feel pain in back, neck...

Also, In MMA you put a lot of ennergy in trianing before competing. In sport teams like hockey you're game is you're training and just by playing you become better. I also think the satisfaction of winning as a team is higer then winning individual effort.

As a fan I still prefer MMA to other sport and I dont think it could ever change.

What was the tipping point that led you to stop?

Tthere was not an exact breaking point. I had not enough time to play hockey and train MMA and I decide to stop MMA.

The social impact could have been the difference. My training partner were people I met when training MMA, and my hockey teams are mostly long time friend. If my friends have trained MMA with me for year it could have been different. Many tried but stopped after 3 months maximum. I trained for 3 years

* Edited at 11.30.2020, 10:31 AM ET *