Cowboy Cerrone

Nothing was going to stop Cerrone from laying his cowboy hat and gloves in the center of the Octagon at the end of his UFC 276 fight with Jim Miller.

I knew the time was soon and I just had to pick the right time. “I told the guys at the UFC PI, don’t take my fingerprint off the thing, goddamn, I wanna come in here whenever I want. I took a lot of time off, and then called my agent and said ‘Get me a fight,’ and I knew that this was going to be the last one.” After that I’m turning the corner and never looking back.” I had Joe in the ring and I had Bruce in the ring. “Go get in a racecar and go play. Talk to the young generation and tell them all the stuff they shoulda woulda coulda done, and I don’t know, maybe I’ll get an itch in two years but anytime soon? “And I did the McGregor fight, and I took another fight. The standing ovation I got was cool, and it just ... it was time. “I surprised the hell out of my team, they had no idea it was coming. “Win or lose tonight, I was riding off,” he reiterated at the UFC 276 post-fight press conference. “And this is supposed to be my lowest low, but I feel the highest high.