UFC veteran Tom Duquesnoy has announced his retirement as a professional MMA fighter, ending the career with a record of 16-2-0-1NC.
The bantamweight star announced his retirement through Instagram:
Here is a translation of what Duquesnoy wrote, via Google Translate:
?MMA has been for me the school of life with travels and meetings around the world, and most importantly, the opportunity to discover me as a person. Today I decide to take another direction that attracts me a lot more and that take me a big part of my energy. Which means that I will no longer devote myself to high level training. I respect the sport too well to practice it halfway and that's why I'm at a crossroads where it is essential for me to focus on what I am passionate about most. It is also the result of a long introspection that was not obvious since it was my childhood dream to fight at the UFC, I who watched the fighting since the age of twelve and who had everything taken advantage of these last ten years to make this dream come true. This decision is good for me and comes from the heart. So I'm telling you about my official retirement as a professional MMA fighter. This is a new chapter of dedicated life as you know, teaching MMA techniques but ESPECIALLY, the spiritual aspect of mixed martial arts and the inner quest. And it is on this path that you are all WELCOME and I invite you to follow the rest of my story. A continuation where we will be brought to meet us more than ever. I take this opportunity to THANK everyone from the bottom of the HEART, and they are many, to have brought their light on my path, to have made this trip so dense in teaching and human values. Thank you all?
Duquesnoy, in his nineteen fight professional MMA career, picked up notable wins over Alan Philpott, Patrick Williams and Terrion Ware. Duquesnoy last competed at UFC Fight Night London, defeating the aforementioned Ware by unanimous decision.