Stephan Bonnar, perhaps the most famous journeyman fighter in UFC history, confirmed Tuesday night what he had hinted about for months: at 35, his career inside the cage was over.
Being left momentarily paralyzed by a knee to the solar plexus, and quickly finished by the greatest fighter of his time in Anderson Silva, may not have been the storybook ending he was hoping for. But that's why it's called storybook, because it rarely happens.
Bonnar was never a top championship contender. He also never beat a top championship contender, although he did come very close to beating one future champion. In his 15 UFC fights over a little more than seven years on the roster, he only had two main events, one a few weeks ago as a late su...
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